A18
News
Blue Mountain Eagle
Wednesday, May 11, 2016
OPIOID
Continued from Page A1
200,000 overdoses a year. An
estimated 2.1 million people
abuse opioids, according to
the National Institute on Drug
Abuse. The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention recent-
ly reported a drop in life expec-
tancy for white women — one
possible reason is the abuse of
prescription painkillers.
The group assembled in
Good Shepherd’s board room
gave Walden an uniltered look
at the struggle to subdue the
opioid beast.
La Grande psychiatrist
Joel Rice said he helps opioid
addicts to break away by pre-
scribing buprenorphine (sold
as Suboxone). Critics say using
Suboxone, which is also ad-
dictive, is simply exchanging
one drug for another. But Rice
considers the drug a critical tool
to help people break free from
painkillers.
“It’s easier to get off of,” he
said. “You feel normal on it.
You can rebuild your life so you
have something to live for.”
Rice said he isn’t able to
accommodate every patient
who needs medication-assisted
treatment — prescribers are
limited to 30 patients initially
and a maximum of 100 after a
year. Holton is one of only six
Suboxone prescribers east of
The Dalles, Holton said.
Pending legislation would
lift the cap after a year for sub-
stance abuse specialists. With
this in the works, Rice is con-
sidering starting a new clinic in
EO Media Group/E.J. Harris
Dr. Joel Rice of La Grande holds up an automated
Suboxone dispenser used to treat opioid addicts.
Suboxone is a drug that is used to wean addicts off
of opioids.
Pendleton in order to ill a gap
in Umatilla County.
Rice said he sees patients
from every walk of life, from
millionaires to people who are
homeless.
Michelle Frizzell, a thera-
pist who works with Rice, also
sat at the table. Frizzell knows
the struggles their patients face
because she went through them
herself. She broke her foot and
was prescribed painkillers.
“That was the beginning of
a 10-year addiction to opioids,”
she said.
When she became de-
termined to break free, she
couldn’t ind a doctor nearby
to help her. She regularly trav-
eled more than ive hours from
her Milton-Freewater home to
Marysville, Washington.
“The detox is so bad — so
uncomfortable emotionally and
physically,” Frizzell said. “I was
driven to travel long distances
for Suboxone.”
By the end of an hour and
a half, most around the table
had commented. Walden asked
A TTENTION G RANT
C OUNTY
V ETERANS :
Did you know a service-connected
disabled veteran is entitled to
FREE use of Oregon State Parks?
See your Grant County Veteran Services
Officer today for more information,
located at Grant County Courthouse.
Open Mon, Wed, & Fri, 10 am - 4 pm,
by appointment. Call 541-575-1631
E ASTERN O REGON A CADEMY I S G ROWING
questions and described pending
legislation. He distributed a list
of a dozen opioid-related bills.
The legislation increases access
to treatment, reduces overpre-
scribing, seeks best practices,
requires more stringent review
of opioids and makes opioid
reversal drugs more accessible.
One bill educates teens and
adolescents injured in sports
about the dangers of addiction.
Another funds the improvement
of electronic prescription drug
monitoring to help prescribers
know if their patients are already
getting prescriptions from other
sources. The Reducing Unused
Medications Act would allow
pharmacists to ill only part of a
prescription. If pain persists, the
patient could go back and get
more pills.
Getting a handle on opioid
prescriptions is only one aspect
of this murky mess. The ten-
dency for opioid users to even-
tually switch to heroin, which is
cheaper and easier to procure, is
another.
Holton said he is optimistic
about subduing the opioid mon-
ster, but he knows heroin will
bring additional trials.
“I’m convinced we’re going
to ix this,” he said, regarding
opioid addiction. “But we’ll
have to meet again down the
road about the heroin crisis.”
SQUAW
Continued from Page A1
The letter points out
“squaw” is not listed in the
board’s policy manual as a
derogatory name. The county
agrees the name is “generic,
over-used and not very de-
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Luke Claughton of John Day
crosses the finish line in the
“straddle” portion of the event.
STRUT
Prize winners
Continued from Page A1
Creek Road on Highway 26
(6 miles), “strutters” at the pull-
out east of Dog Creek Road on
Highway 26 (4.5 miles) and
“strollers” walked around the
Seventh Street Complex path
(1.5 miles).
All crossed the inish line at
the hospital parking lot.
Times were recorded, but
the races were noncompetitive.
Drawings for prizes were
handed out, with many local
businesses donating to the
cause.
The Large Team prize win-
ner was Blue Mountain Hospi-
tal, and the Small Team winner
scriptive of geographic sites.”
The letter states the court does
not believe the name is deroga-
tory, however, and that any
name can be offensive depend-
ing on how it is used.
“We ask you to move your
perspective on Squaw Mead-
ow as ‘derogatory’ to how lo-
cal citizens see the meadow,”
C OME G ROW W ITH U S
Full time positions available starting at $10/hour for
morning and swing shifts. Benefits include simple IRA
match, college credit reimbursement and
paid vacation/sick time off.
Join our team in serving and investing in our young men
where you can build relationships and change lives.
Call 541-573-7303 for more information or stop by our
office in Burns to pick up an application at
705 Hwy. 20 South.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL
WAR PG-13
Political interference in the Avengers’ activities
causes a rift between former allies Captain
America and Iron Man.
FRI & SAT
(12:45) (3:30) 6:30 9:30
SUNDAY
(1:10) (3:30) 6:30
MON-THURS (12:45) (4:20) 6:30
MOTHER’S DAY PG-13
Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts. Three generations
come together in the week leading up to Mother’s
Day.
FRI & SAT
(12:45) (4:00) 7:00 9:35
SUNDAY
(1:10) (4:00) 7:00
MON-THURS (12:45) (4:20) 7:00
THE JUNGLE BOOK PG
Guided by Bagheera and Baloo, the man-cub
Mowgli embarks on a journey of self-discovery.
FRI & SAT
(12:45) (4:10) 7:10 9:40
(1:10) (4:10) 7:10
SUNDAY
MON-THURS (12:45) (4:20) 7:10
$9 Adult, $7 Senior (60+), Youth
Virginia Miller ............................................. Len’s $25 gift card
Jade Grant ................................................. King’s bike
Thomas Wunz ........................................... John Day True Value planter
Russ Comer .............................................. Log Cabin Espresso gift card
Sheila Comer ............................................ Log Cabin Espresso gift card
Shawna Clark ............................................ Java Jungle gift card
Barb Oliver ................................................ Station 62 gift card
Kaylee Lemcke .......................................... Dairy Queen gift card:
Brianna Proctor ......................................... Dairy Queen gift card
Nathan Wunz ............................................ Dairy Queen gift card
Jay Terramasso .......................................Dairy Queen gift card
Dave Hall ................................................Dairy Queen gift card
Sam Bailey ................................................ Oregon Zoo tickets
was Chester’s Thriftway.
The oldest participant was
78 years old, and the youngest
was 3 months old.
“I’m really glad that people
can come out and run in memo-
ry of someone,” Ross said. “It’s
also about being outside and
the letter states. “When our
citizens are at Squaw Meadow
they are drawn back to early
times when the meadow was a
‘garden’ where Native Ameri-
can women were seen digging
roots and gathering seeds, nuts
and berries. We see the Squaw
Meadow as a place of the ap-
preciation of our history and
culture.”
However, convincing the
board “squaw” is acceptable
may be dificult. In 2001, the
Oregon Legislature passed a
law prohibiting governments
from using “squaw” in names
of public property.
Although the law did not
apply to geographic features,
which are named by the fed-
eral board, the Legislative
Assembly passed a resolution
later in 2001 urging the term to
A MAN
WAKES
UP in the
morning
after sleeping on...
an advertised bed, in advertised
pajamas.
03856
3 3343333
3 3333
3 3333333
3 333333
3 33333
3 33333
3 33
Volunteer Donna Baughman offers
some refreshment at the water station
along Highway 26 to Tom Bridges, left,
and Madelyn Bailey.
He will bathe in an ADVERTISED TUB, shave with an ADVERTISED RAZOR,
have a breakfast of ADVERTISED JUICE, cereal and toast, toasted in an
ADVERTISED TOASTER, put on ADVERTISED CLOTHES and glance at his
ADVERTISED WATCH. He’ll ride to work in his ADVERTISED CAR, sit at an
ADVERTISED DESK and write with an ADVERTISED PEN. Yet this person
hesitates to advertise, saying that advertising doesn’t pay. Finally, when his
non-advertised business is going under, HE’LL ADVERTISE IT FOR SALE.
Then it’s too late.
AND THEY SAY ADVERTISING DOESN’T WORK?
DON’T MAKE THIS SAME MISTAKE
Advertising is an investment, not an expense. Think about it!
Blue Mountain Eagle
MyEagleNews.com
Don’t get left behind, call today! Kim Kell 541-575-0710
having fun, and with the four
races, there is something for
everyone.”
Ross said she is especially
pleased that because of the sup-
port of their fundraisers, “none
of our hospice patients owe us
a dime.”
be removed at the federal lev-
el: “Whereas the term ‘squaw,’
originating from an Algonquin
word for female anatomy, is
derogatory, a racial slur, and as
such, offensive to Oregonians,
Indian and non-Indian alike
... we call upon the ... United
States Board on Geographic
Names and Oregon Geograph-
ic Names Board to remove the
term ‘squaw’ from names of
geographic places in the State
of Oregon.”
Oregon law also requires a
government to consider a term
or phrase in the language of an
Indian tribe when replacing
the term “squaw.”
The county’s letter to the
board states the Umatilla
Tribes’ proposals are “not au-
thentic ... a mélange of Uma-
tilla and Nez Percé words.”
Neither group lived in the
county, the letter states.
The docket for the April
meeting of the federal board’s
Domestic Names Committee,
however, cites the Umatilla
Tribes’ Cultural Resources
Protection Program, which
states “the features are locat-
ed within the ceded lands,
boundaries and traditional use
areas of the” Cayuse, Umatil-
la and Walla Walla tribes.
In the letter to the board,
the county also requested the
board reconsider the coun-
ty’s proposed names for the
other three features that were
named based on the Umatilla
Tribes’ proposals: “Hawthorn
Creek” instead of “Kúckuc
Creek,” 3.7 miles northwest
of Granite; “Elder Creek” in-
stead of “Škáypiya Creek,” 15
miles north of Hamilton; and
“Little Elder Creek” instead
of “Little Škáypiya Creek,”
13 miles north of Hamilton.
Robbins Farm Equipment
3850 10th St.
Baker City
10218 Wallowa Lake Hwy.
La Grande
1160 S Egan
Burns
86812 Christmas Valley Hwy.
Christmas Valley
541-523-6377
541-963-6577
541-573-6377
541-523-6377