opioid epidemic
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PublishedNovember 18, 2024
Augusta considers exchange program that would pay to get used hypodermic needles off city streets
The city could partner with a needle exchange program to offer people 5 cents for each used needle they turn in.
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PublishedOctober 21, 2024
Portland council rejects return to 1-to-1 needle exchange program, opts for buyback plan
The council voted instead to go ahead with a pilot needle buyback program, which will be paid for with opioid settlement funds.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2024
About 300 Lewiston middle schoolers get naloxone training as part of state mandate
As the state-mandated training for administering the overdose antidote makes its way to school districts across the state, hundreds of middle schoolers attended Lewiston's training two days in a row. More than half of them chose to leave with a naloxone kit.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2024
Mayor Mark Dion: Needle waste is a public safety hazard of Portland’s own making
We need to challenge the assumptions of our current hypodermic needle exchange policy.
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PublishedSeptember 10, 2024
Biddeford council unanimously approves opioid settlement fund tracking ordinance
The funding will be used to help Biddeford residents affected by the opioid crisis.
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PublishedAugust 30, 2024
A generation gone: How opioids have fueled the surge in overdose deaths in the past 25 years
Drug overdose deaths have taken thousands of lives in the last roughly 25 years in Maine, also having ripple effects on the loved ones of those who died.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2024
Maine’s sixth annual Opioid Response Summit draws hundreds to Auburn
Gov. Janet Mills thinks the enhanced prescription monitoring program is one of the factors that brought down the number of drug overdose deaths last year.
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PublishedJuly 22, 2024
Drug overdose deaths in Maine continue to decline after plummeting in 2023
The state is on track for a 9.8% decline in 2024 from the previous year, after seeing a 16% decrease in 2023.
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PublishedJune 30, 2024
In rural Maine, efforts to provide drug treatment often met with resistance, despite high demand
Only about 2,400 people live in the Lincoln County town of Whitefield, where a 54-bed recovery residence recently opened in spite of heavy opposition.
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PublishedJune 28, 2024
The Supreme Court rejected an opioid settlement that could have brought Maine $20 million. What now?
While the parties will now have to renegotiate a new settlement, Maine is expecting to receive about $235 million over the next 18 years from other opioid settlements.
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