Each one can defer to Gov. Paul LePage’s dark view or do the right thing for Mainers whose lives may depend on it.
Maine heroin/opioids
For all our local content dealing with addiction and trafficking in heroin, opiates and opioids.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: LePage’s ignorance of addiction science worsens health crisis
Increased access to naloxone does not result in increased levels of heroin use – it may reduce usage.
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Posted inLocal & State, Politics
LePage vetoes bill aimed at increasing access to overdose antidote
‘Naloxone does not truly save lives; it merely extends them until the next overdose,’ LePage writes in vetoing a bill to allow pharmacists to dispense naloxone without a prescription.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Lebanon man charged with trafficking fentanyl, heroin
Francis Sinclair, 61, was arrested at his home early this morning after officials found 50 grams of a suspected heroin/fentanyl mix.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
Three charged with heroin trafficking in Washington County
Officials seize 135 grams following the search of a home in Perry where police also find three children present.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Police can’t arrest Maine out of drug problem
Treatment is the only way to lower demand and give law enforcement a fighting chance.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
Biddeford police say batch of heroin contained fentanyl
One man is charged with drug trafficking and two people are hospitalized with overdose symptoms.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Treatment access key to success of pioneering drug amnesty effort
To make programs modeled on one in Gloucester, Mass., work in Maine, local and county police here should be getting more state support.