Gwen Fletcher, 10, is forging ahead with support from a loving grandmother and the familiar touchstones of her life in rural Lyman.
Joe Lawlor
Staff Writer
Joe Lawlor writes about health and human services for the Press Herald. A 24-year newspaper veteran, Lawlor has worked in Ohio, Michigan and Virginia before relocating to Maine in 2013 to join the Press Herald. He is still considered “from away” but since then, he has learned what a “dooryard” is, eaten “whoopie pies” drank Moxie and boiled some “lobstahs.” The stories he enjoys most are when he learns something and meeting inspiring people.
He lives in South Portland - aka “SoPo” - with his wife, Melanie, and two school-age children.
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Maine increases payments to providers treating opioid use disorder
Treatment experts applaud the move, but say it took the LePage administration too long to make significant investments in expanding treatment, given the severity of the opioid epidemic.
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Judge affirms Medicaid expansion, but sets deadline that LePage won’t have to meet
While the ruling goes against the LePage administration, the judge pushes the enrollment date back to Feb. 1, when the governor will be Janet Mills, an advocate of expansion.
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More patients expected as more doctors sign on to treat opioid use disorder
A Maine Medical Association campaign to coax more primary care doctors to offer medication-assisted treatment has paid off, but Medicaid expansion will test Maine’s capacity to meet the demand.
Posted inHealth, Local & State, Politics
LePage requests stay of judge’s order to implement Medicaid expansion
The governor, who has consistently fought any growth in the Medicaid program, files the motion just five weeks before Gov.-elect Janet Mills is expected to implement expansion upon taking office.
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Lewiston police tell mobile needle exchange program to halt distribution
The program, which its founder calls the Church of Safe Injection, is violating a state law that prohibits people from distributing hypodermic needles, police say.
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Lobster boat sinks off Down East coast
Those aboard made it safely onto another fishing vessel 11 miles off Jonesport, and there were no injuries, the Coast Guard says.
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L.L. Bean’s Gorman family donates $4 million for new lobby in Maine Med expansion
The lobby will be named after former Bean president Leon Gorman, and the donation toward a modern medical services facility is a gift ‘to the people of Maine,’ his widow says.
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New whooping cough cases jumped in October, to highest monthly total of 2018
York County continues to be a hot spot for the infectious disease, and low vaccination rates are thought to be a factor.
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Mills administration to consider keeping Maine-based emergency preparedness system
A spokesman for the incoming governor says the $700,000 contract to send the work to a North Carolina company will be reviewed.