opioid epidemic
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PublishedMay 24, 2016
Sen. Angus King proposes fee on prescription opioids to fund treatment programs
Maine's independent senator is co-sponsoring a bill that would pay for programs to fight the opioid epidemic by adding a 1-cent fee on each milligram of active opioid ingredients in prescription painkillers.
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PublishedMay 9, 2016
More organ donation emerges as unexpected side effect of opioid epidemic
Organs from drug users can be considered high risk, but for those desperate for an organ, high risk is relative.
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PublishedMay 3, 2016
New York man gets more than 8 years for smuggling opioids to Maine
Damien Corbett, 40, had been delivering pills for more than a year to a North Berwick couple to distribute.
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PublishedApril 25, 2016
Maine Voices: LePage’s ignorance of addiction science worsens health crisis
Increased access to naloxone does not result in increased levels of heroin use – it may reduce usage.
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PublishedApril 20, 2016
LePage vetoes bill aimed at increasing access to overdose antidote
'Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,' LePage writes in vetoing a bill to allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone without a prescription.
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PublishedApril 3, 2016
Another View: Anti-addiction measure leaves pain patients hurting
People who are disabled by chronic pain should not be forgotten in the effort to fight drug abuse.
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PublishedApril 3, 2016
Maine Voices: Federal Medicaid expansion funds would help ease drug crisis
Other states are using this health care money to treat addiction and reduce related crime – saving dollars and lives.
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PublishedApril 1, 2016
Maine Voices: Lawmakers should defeat making drug possession a felony offense
Maine must move away from the failed policies of the drug war that merely filled up our prisons.
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PublishedMarch 31, 2016
Maine Voices: Portland’s next budget to take new direction, focus on what matters most
Among the initiatives: More innovation, fixing roads and sidewalks, faster permitting and improved city services.
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