opioid addiction

Dr Erik Steele of the 1,000 lives campaign says emergency rooms in Maine are being encouraged to follow a five-step system that includes giving patients at risk for opioid-related overdoses a prescription for buprenorphine and a dose of Narcan to take home.

The court's decision to temporarily block federal regulations could allow more air pollution to drift into Maine while the ruling on abortion was criticized by Democratic leaders.

The bipartisan bill would create a two-year pilot program for an interested municipality to establish a center, which would also provide health care and access to treatment.

The controversial deal hashed out between the Department of Justice and the maker of Oxycontin provides hundreds of millions of dollars of relief for communities hit hard by the opioid epidemic.

President Trump promised to end America's opioid crisis. On his watch overdose deaths flattened in 2018 then surged again to record levels.

"During the pandemic, basically everything is pointed in the wrong direction," says one federal health official, who calls the convergence of COVID-19 and America's addiction crisis "a nightmare."

On the heels of a recent report that drug overdose deaths in Maine are on the rise, Gov. Janet Mills held a virtual opioid response summit Thursday.It is…

Drug overdose deaths in Maine are on the rise.According to a report from the state Attorney General's office, drug deaths increased by 23 percent in the…

A new project in Maine will provide housing for chronically homeless people who have opioid use disorder.The deadline for nonprofit organizations to put…

Maine Behavioral Healthcare unveiled a new treatment center in South Portland Thursday for people with opioid and other substance-use disorders. It's the…