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Oregon Recovery Treatment Centers opens Klamath County's first opioid treatment program, bringing methadone and buprenorphine to a rural community previously requiring 80-mile trips for medication-assisted treatment.

State officials say behavioral health investments will add more than 1,600 licensed residential treatment beds — a 45% capacity increase — with 1,067 already open and the rest scheduled within two and a half years.

Oregon's Opioid Settlement Prevention, Treatment and Recovery Board releases first comprehensive spending report, directing $90 million to tribes, counties, and community programs.

Oregon's Health Authority finalized rules expanding Medicaid reimbursement for residential substance use disorder treatment, increasing per-diem rates and lifting prior-authorization barriers for adults.