The brutally honest obituary puts heroin deaths in a very public eye in hopes of averting future tragedy.
Eric Russell
Staff Writer
Eric Russell has been a general assignment reporter at the Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram since 2012 and has been a journalist in Maine since 2004. Because he doesn’t have a specific geographic or topical area to cover, Eric often is free to roam the state in pursuit of the most interesting stories, whether it’s tackling the big topic of the day or chasing ideas that fall just outside the boundaries of everyday news. His favorite assignments are ones where he can leave the office and meet with people in their homes or their workplaces to talk about their struggles and challenges – and sometimes their triumphs. Or to try and answer complicated questions.
Eric grew up in Southern Maine, went to college at the University of Maine and worked in Bangor for eight years before joining the Press Herald. He lives in Brunswick with his wife, a school teacher, and two daughters.
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LePage administration pulls ‘business friendly’ status from South Portland
The action comes because the city passed an ordinance last year to block the export of tar sands oil from its harbor.
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Parents push kids’ medical marijuana bill
The federal law that makes pot illegal handicaps children who need to take cannabis treatments in schools.
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Maine’s marijuana inspectors turning up few problems with caregivers
But a group representing caregivers says they want to have input in the DHHS compliance program.
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Boothbay Harbor Shipyard to make historic schooner seaworthy again
Massachusetts’ state ship, the Ernestina-Morrissey, will get an overhaul that will last for the next three years.
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Maine sets a record for drug needle exchanges
The total hit 564,847 last year, up 238 percent since 2010, as heroin use surged and clinics like Portland’s worked to prevent cases of HIV and hepatitis C.
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New head of Maine National Guard meets with national officials
Brig. Gen. Gerard Bolduc, who replaced James Campbell on March 24, goes to Arlington, Virginia, to review the future of the Maine guard.
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Maine National Guard chief’s firing: Tactics on controversial plan go awry
Records provide details of the misstatements and secrecy that James Campbell used to achieve his unit swap agenda.
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Skowhegan National Guard unit’s deployment to Kuwait canceled
The Maine National Guard says the change came because of a ‘scheduled transition to an infantry unit around the same time that it would return from its overseas mission.’
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Emails show why Guard general was fired, LePage says
Speaking to reporters, the governor said he couldn’t be specific about the firing of Brig. Gen. James Campbell because it’s a ‘personnel matter.’