Solutions should focus on creative supply disruption, supervised opioid use sites and new forms of treatment.
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Posted inNation & World
Trump administration announces nearly $2 billion in opioid grants
The money is destined for states and local governments to help provide treatment and recovery services.
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Posted inHealth, Maine, News
High-dose opioid prescriptions fall sharply in Maine
Much of the decrease appears to have occurred since a law limiting such prescriptions began to take effect in 2017.
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Defendant in major opioid case says he was helping people
Aaron Shamo is charged with operating a criminal enterprise, selling drugs that caused a fatal overdose and other counts.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Accounting for pain got lost amid addiction to profit
Drug companies and liquor bottlers can’t be expected to regulate themselves.
Posted inNation & World, News
Fifteen percent of pharmacies handled nearly half of all opioid pills nationwide
By the time Clinton County coroner Steve Talbott arrived at the scene of an overdose in southern Kentucky, the bottles of prescription pain pills usually had vanished. Friends and relatives of the dead rarely had answers to Talbott’s questions: What kind of pills did they take and where did they come from? A toxicology report […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
U.S. Attorney Frank: Law enforcement had key role in decline in Maine overdose deaths
Though recent coverage didn’t mention it, a surge in federal prosecutions has been a deterrent to users and dealers.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Nation & World
Opioid distributors propose $10 billion to end state claims
The National Association of Attorneys General – handling talks on behalf of more than 35 states – counter with a demand for $45 billion to cover costs from the public-health crisis of opioid addiction and overdoses, sources say.
Posted inHealth, Nation & World
Boom in overdose-reversing drug is linked to fewer deaths
The United States is in the midst of the deadliest drug overdose epidemic in its history.
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Big question in opioid suits: How to divide any settlement
About 2,000 state and local governments seek to hold the drug industry accountable for the nation’s opioid crisis.