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Over the next two decades, Maine is expected to receive at least $130 million from opioid manufacturers and distributors as part of a legal settlement. The newly-formed Maine Recovery Council will decide how to spend half of those funds, and they held their first meeting Tuesday in Augusta.
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The Maine Department of Corrections announced Friday that it is expanding medication-assisted treatment for residents of state correctional facilities who…
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PORTLAND, Maine - Research by the Maine Medical Center has found that many patients considered at high risk for opioid overdose were not prescribed an…
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Maine will invest almost $6 million in federal money in community health centers and other institutions to try to fight the state's opioid abuse…
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The number of women incarcerated in Maine is rising fast. In the past six years the number of female inmates at the Maine Correctional Center (MCC) in…
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A new report from the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston finds that prescribing practices are a stronger driver of the opioid crisis in New England than…
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AUGUSTA, Maine - The federal court in Maine is set to hear a lawsuit challenging the ban on medication-assisted treatment in county jails. The American…
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Maine had among the highest annual rate of increases in the number of U.S. mothers who had opioid use disorder at the time of labor and delivery during a…