Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, May 24, 2017
OPIODS
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Thankfully, there’s
a drug, naloxone that can
reverse opioid overdoses
and restore breathing
- and at a community
meeting in Cave Junction
May 30, 7-9 p.m. at the
County Building, 102 S.
Redwood Hwy, this drug
will be made available to
attendees.
“An overdose doesn’t
have to be fatal,” explained
meeting organizer Julia
Pinsky. “Naloxone is
not addictive and is very
safe. Anyone can use it
and anyone can carry it.
If you’re worried that
someone in your life
might be at risk, come to
the meeting. We’re not
about prying into anyone’s
business, whether you
are the grandparent of
someone who uses illicit
drugs, or you use them
yourself, we don’t care.
There’s no judging - we
just want to get naloxone
into your hands.”
Pinsky and her
husband, David Pinsky,
lost their son, Max, to a
heroin overdose in 2013,
after he’d struggled
with addiction for some
time. As parents they
wanted to spare others
this terrible loss, so they
formed Max’s Mission,
a nonprofit organization
that works to save lives
in Southern Oregon that
might otherwise be lost
to opioid overdose. The
Pinskys use this platform
to spread awareness and
offer training and free
distribution of naloxone.
“The avalanche of
addiction in a family is
so overwhelming. Those
affected frequently feel
alienated from others and
often think that nobody
else could imagine what
they’re going through,”
Pinsky said. “Yet opioid
addiction goes far beyond
‘kids in the streets’ to
permeate all avenues of
society - and there can be
a negative stigma. Many
people are very secretive
about a partner, child or
aunt on opioids. But you’re
never that far away from
somebody who is using
these drugs. We hope to
broaden the conversation
in communities and help
address issues related to
prescription and illicit
opioid use to help save
lives of friends, families
and neighbors.”
SPACE
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Continued from A-1
to increase Josephine County’s ability to attract
employers, land must be acquired, and if need
be developed, to be suitable for businesses
small and large alike.
Schmelzer said during an administrative
meeting with the commissioners that it is not
unusual for a governmental entity to pursue
and develop industrial areas; this is especially
true if the private sector fails to do so.
Although there is 710 acres of vacant
industrial land in Josephine County, the
majority is currently either not for sale or
lacks important services such as sewer or
water. Why a great deal of the county’s land is
B INGO
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Pinsky said “the
proof is in the numbers”
- that when naloxone
is distributed, overdose
numbers “go way down.”
She said Multnomah
County has tracked this
positive trend.
Opioid addiction
catches many people off
guard. Pinsky explained:
“What often happens is
they have their wisdom
teeth out, or they have
an accident and they get
prescription opioids.
They like it and become
addicted, and many of
these people end up on
street or illicit drugs.
Opioids quickly change the
brain and the personality.
The brain becomes focused
on where the next fix is
going to come from and
often shuts down normal
daily activities of life.
Then people need help
- it’s very hard to come off
opioids by themselves.”
At the upcoming
meeting some free doses of
naloxone will be available.
The meeting will also
provide training on how
and when to use naloxone
and how to get the drug
from your local pharmacy
(changes in Oregon law
now enable the public to
purchase naloxone without
a prescription). While the
drug can be expensive,
patients at local clinics
can usually get it either
free or very reasonably
priced - and Oregon Health
Plan covers naloxone,
according to Pinsky.
Contacts, resources and
information to help battle
opioid addiction will also
be offered at the meeting.
“If you are worried
that someone in your life
“not for sale” Schmelzer could not decisively
say but theorized that private individuals are
holding onto the land in the hopes that its
value may increase, because they need a “write
off,” or simply because they aren’t ready to
sell it yet.
Josephine County has desirable industrial
land located in the Illinois Valley Industrial
Park, at the airport, but it is currently flawed
because the fire suppression system must
be fixed before the county can market it to
businesses.The funding required, which would
come out of the lottery-dollar-fueled Economic
Development Fund if approved, is currently
estimated at around $50,000.
Schmelzer, though admittedly optimistic,
estimates that there’s about a 75 percent
chance of the project being approved. The
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do not have “intense uses” could easily make
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The State of Oregon can help to
market industrial sites globally through the
state’s Certified Shovel Ready program but,
according to Schmelzer, Josephine County
currently does not have any sites that qualify.
“If we are going to attract traded sector
employers—which pay higher wages—we
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organizing community
meetings in Southern
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also seeking additional
funding to extend their
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might be at risk, please
come to the meeting,”
Pinsky said.
The naloxone has
been made available by
funding from the Oregon
Attorney General, and
the Pinskys’ work is also
supported by Oregon Pain
Guidance, HIV Alliance,
Siskiyou Community
Health Center and
IVcanDO.
While currently busy
funding will be approved or disapproved over
the coming months of spring as the budgeting
process is completed.
In addition to the funds requested for
the Illinois Valley Industrial Park’s fire
suppression system, there has also been a
request to set aside money to build a brand-
new “I-5 industrial park.” However, this
project is still in the very early stages of
development and nothing about it, even its size
or location, is confirmed
Despite many businesses preferring
industrial parks for guaranteed land use
compatibility, services and close proximity to
major transport routes, industrial land that does
not have any or all of these qualities should
still, according to Schmelzer, be developed
if possible.Schmelzer continued on the point
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