Organs from drug users can be considered high risk, but for those desperate for an organ, high risk is relative.
opioid epidemic
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine, News
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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Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inMaine, Politics
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.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
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.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
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.