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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Data Sheet: Confirmed drug deaths
The Sun Journal analyzed annual confirmed drug death counts, from 1997 through September 2021, using data from drug death reports.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Data Sheet: Prescription distribution
The Sun Journal analyzed data from Maine’s Prescription Monitoring Program from 2016 to 2021; and data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System from 2006 to 2014.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
At the root of an epidemic in Maine: a prescription pad
Twenty years after Purdue Pharma introduced its pain medication, OxyContin, Maine lawmakers passed a bill that significantly stemmed the flow of pain pills into the state. A Sun Journal investigation found the new restrictions may have been too little, too late: A generation of Mainers were already grappling with substance use disorder and a growing illicit drug trade was ready to meet the demand.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Data Sheet: Fatal and nonfatal overdoses 2017-2021
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PublishedApril 9, 2022
Florida groups canvass spring breakers to warn of fentanyl
The synthetic drug can be 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin or prescription opioids.
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PublishedApril 3, 2022
States look for solutions as U.S. fentanyl deaths keep rising
With fentanyl driving fatal overdoses to record levels in the U.S., state governments are scrambling for solutions.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2022
‘Scum of the earth’: Opioid victims face owners of Purdue Pharma
Addiction and overdose survivors and those who have lost loved ones have unleashed their emotions on members of the family they blame for fueling the opioid epidemic.
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PublishedMarch 6, 2022
Mainers gather for Black Balloon Day, marking 636 overdose deaths in 2021
Members of the Maine recovery community advocate for an amendment to the state Good Samaritan Law that would protect anyone at the scene of an overdose from punishment for nonviolent crimes.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2022
Portrayed as villain in TV series about opioid crisis, ex-U.S. attorney for Maine says he didn’t sell out
Jay McCloskey, who has a brief but unflattering portrayal in the new miniseries 'Dopesick,' defends his work for the OxyContin producer Purdue Pharma in the early 2000s.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2022
Congressional report calls for new strategy for opioids and a Cabinet-level leader
Recent news that overdose deaths surpassed 100,000 in one year has caught the public's attention.
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