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The public conversation on homelessness and substance use is evolving quickly. Stay up-to-date on the latest coverage. For media inquiries, please contact media[at]evergreentreatment[dot]org.

Apr 27 - Featured Story

Harm reduction lays a groundwork for recovery

For more than 25 years, Dwight struggled with cocaine use. In 2013, after repeated offenses, a police officer referred him to Seattle’s Law Enforcement Assisted...
Feb 02 - Featured Story

King County homeless shelters left to deal with omicron mostly on their own

Public Health couldn’t staff every room in the hotels and the bar to get into one of the beds rose. Staff at homeless nonprofits, who’d...
Dec 18

Rhode Island to open first state-sanctioned overdose prevention center

Providence is now home to the country’s first state-sanctioned facility...
Dec 10

Downtown movement

People living on the streets in downtown Seattle feel like...
Nov 25

Social security in Seattle

More than 1.2 million people over the age of 65...
Nov 13

Mobile methadone clinics bring treatment to the streets

To bring methadone to this population, the federal government needed...
Nov 06

Pipeline of fentanyl into the U.S. may be drying up

When street fentanyl began spreading in the American street drug...
Oct 30

What cities really take when they sweep encampments

As homelessness has surged to record levels in the U.S.,...
Oct 21

Overdose deaths are down nationally, but up in west

Despite an encouraging national dip in the past year, overdose...
Oct 17

Washington unveils five-year plan to ease record-high homelessness

The Department of Commerce plan outlines securing new funding to...
Oct 09

Auburn shifts shelter requirements

Less than three months after the U.S. Supreme Court cleared...
Sep 18

Seattle City Council considers 7 ‘stay out’ drug or prostitution zones

The Seattle City Council looks poised to establish six “stay...

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