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Tag: opioid

Posted inPiscataquis

Dover-Foxcroft residents don’t want an opioid treatment center in town

Avatar photo by Valerie Royzman May 10, 2022May 10, 2022

About 60 residents, some of whom were at odds over the proposed clinic in late April, packed a Dover-Foxcroft Planning Board meeting to debate whether the town’s drug problem is big enough to merit such a facility.

Posted inNational Business

US states agree to new opioid settlement with Purdue Pharma

Avatar photo by The Associated Press March 3, 2022March 3, 2022
Posted inPenobscot

Penobscot County’s deadly drug overdose problem isn’t getting better

Avatar photo by Sawyer Loftus September 10, 2021September 10, 2021
Posted inNational Politics

Senate report: Opioid industry has paid advocacy groups $65M

Avatar photo by The Associated Press December 16, 2020December 16, 2020
Posted inOpinion, Opinion Contributor

How drug decriminalization can help solve Maine’s opioid epidemic

Avatar photo by Opinion Contributor February 11, 2020February 10, 2020
Posted inHealth, News, State

Overdose deaths are on track to rise in Maine for 2019, after a 1-year decline

Avatar photo by Eesha Pendharkar January 23, 2020January 23, 2020
Posted inAroostook, News, Police Beat

3 men arrested for drug trafficking in Houlton after officials seize fentanyl

Avatar photo by Joseph Cyr December 19, 2019
Posted inHancock, Health, News

Bar Harbor hospital’s ER is prescribing meds for opioid withdrawal, but it’s not the only one

Avatar photoby Bill TrotterOctober 24, 2019October 24, 2019
Posted inBangor, Health, News, State

The troubling effects of the opioid crisis on Maine children

Avatar photo by Eesha Pendharkar October 10, 2019October 10, 2019
Posted inHealth, Nation, National Business, News

Filings: Purdue owners used Swiss banks to hide transfer

Avatar photo by The Associated Press September 13, 2019
Posted inBangor, Maine Focus, Nation, News, Portland, State

Maine has $2M for recovery homes. None in the Bangor region qualifies.

Avatar photo by Erin Rhoda September 9, 2019November 13, 2019
Posted inBangor, News

Needle exchange group returns 2 weeks after police crackdown in Bangor

Avatar photo by Eesha Pendharkar September 6, 2019
Posted inBangor, News

Bangor police seize needles, shut down Pickering Square needle exchange

Avatar photo by Eesha Pendharkar August 29, 2019
Posted inBangor, Health, Lewiston-Auburn, Nation, News, Portland, State, Waterville

$572M opioid judgment sparks hope in Maine, but don’t read too much into it

Avatar photo by Charles Eichacker August 27, 2019
Posted inEditorials, Opinion

Access to drug treatment shouldn’t end during incarceration

Avatar photo by The BDN Editorial Board July 31, 2019
Posted inBangor, Health, News

The Maine pharmacy that dispensed the most pain pills in opioid crisis’ early days was in Bangor

Avatar photo by Charles Eichacker July 18, 2019July 19, 2019
Posted inHealth, News, State

Use this map to find out how many opioid pills your local pharmacy received

Avatar photo by Lindsay Putnam July 18, 2019February 16, 2021
Posted inNation, News

Newly released federal data unmasks epidemic that led to 76 billion opioid pills

by The Washington Post July 16, 2019
Posted inHealth, News, State

Report: Overdose deaths dropped 14 percent in Q1 in Maine

Avatar photo by The Associated Press July 11, 2019July 11, 2019
Posted inHancock, Health, News

Ellsworth drug treatment center closes after state finds ‘numerous deficiencies,’ stops funding

by Nick Sambides Jr.July 9, 2019July 9, 2019

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