Students in the school’s Addiction Rehabilitation program created the event to help campus and community recovery effort as the state continues to grapple with record numbers of overdose deaths.
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Quest for less addictive painkillers is slow and costly
Researchers have had minimal success creating alternatives to opioids, but some new approaches offer hope.
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Addiction recovery advocates praise opioid treatment plan announced by Mayhew
Maine’s health and human services commissioner earmarks $4.8 million for the Opioid Health Home model, which will provide comprehensive, medication-assisted treatment.
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Speakers at hearing support limiting drug company gifts to Maine doctors
A bill seeking an annual cap of $50 seeks to end any influences on the prescribing of opioids, painkillers that are often a precursor to heroin use.
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Maine attorney general: Report on overdose deaths highlights need for more treatment
Service centers like Portland and Bangor have been hit hardest by the epidemic, revised state data shows.
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Another task force tries to come to grips with heroin crisis in Maine
At its first meeting, it reviews recommendations issued just 11 months ago by an earlier opioid commission.
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Major DEA opioid case falters on uncertain legal grounds
The agency targeted an oxycodone manufacturer for ignoring its responsibility to report suspicious orders as 500 million of its pills ended up in Florida, but a tentative settlement calls for a fine and no admission of wrongdoing.
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Two midcoast businessmen plan to sue state over cap on opioid painkiller doses
A new DHHS rule is aimed at reducing addiction, but the long-term users with chronic pain say they need strong medication to function and do their jobs.
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Maine attorney general launches ad warning of link between prescription painkillers, heroin
Four in 5 heroin users say they started on a prescription, says Janet Mills, whose office produced the spot that will appear on television in the coming months.
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LePage defends handling of opioid crisis, says treatment is available and free
Addicts without insurance can get help at certain methadone clinics, he says while blaming Democrats for fighting his efforts to add treatment capacity.