Deaths this year – mostly from heroin, prescription opioids and fentanyl – totaled a record 286 through September, amid calls for more action to alleviate the crisis.
opioid epidemic
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White House visit by Portland addiction collaborative could pave the way to opioid funding
Portland, if it gets the grant, will be among the first Pay for Success programs to address the growing opioid epidemic.
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Posted inMaine, News
Federal agency removing pain management survey questions to address opioid crisis
Sen. Susan Collins of Maine was among the senators who initiated the effort to ask the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to change the questionnaire hospitals give to discharged patients.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Greater Portland collaborative seeking millions in funding to combat opioid crisis
The collaborative will go to the White House next week in hopes of securing an investment for badly needed sober housing.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Catching the signs could save people from overdosing
Early identification of addiction risk factors is an essential part of the opioid crisis response.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: If tobacco and opioids aren’t bad enough, how about legal marijuana?
Question 1 is a tone-deaf proposal to legalize an addictive substance and create an industry for it.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: The R-word
Why do we care more about avoiding the ‘racist’ label than actually ending racism?
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Angus King urges Senate colleagues to fund law designed to stem drug epidemic
Saying 78 people die each day from the ‘scourge,’ Maine’s independent senator wants the $181 million authorized in the Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act included in a measure to fund the government through Dec. 9.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: LePage saga offers preview of dysfunction
The governor’s behavior and the Maine Legislature’s deadlocked response bode ill for the next two years.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Judge Gov. LePage on his full record and the many ways he’s helped the state
Maine’s finances and economy are much better off because of the policies he has tenaciously championed.