A compact, which does not show Gov. Paul LePage as a signatory, advocates stopping the inappropriate prescribing of painkillers, raising awareness about the problem and encouraging treatment and recovery.
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Posted inLocal & State, News, Politics
Sen. Angus King proposes fee on prescription opioids to fund treatment programs
Maine’s independent senator is co-sponsoring a bill that would pay for programs to fight the opioid epidemic by adding a 1-cent fee on each milligram of active opioid ingredients in prescription painkillers.
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More organ donation emerges as unexpected side effect of opioid epidemic
Organs from drug users can be considered high risk, but for those desperate for an organ, high risk is relative.
Posted inCops & Courts, Local & State, News
New York man gets more than 8 years for smuggling opioids to Maine
Damien Corbett, 40, had been delivering pills for more than a year to a North Berwick couple to distribute.
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.
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 inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Anti-addiction measure leaves pain patients hurting
People who are disabled by chronic pain should not be forgotten in the effort to fight drug abuse.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Federal Medicaid expansion funds would help ease drug crisis
Other states are using this health care money to treat addiction and reduce related crime – saving dollars and lives.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Lawmakers should defeat making drug possession a felony offense
Maine must move away from the failed policies of the drug war that merely filled up our prisons.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Portland’s next budget to take new direction, focus on what matters most
Among the initiatives: More innovation, fixing roads and sidewalks, faster permitting and improved city services.