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PublishedApril 18, 2022
Cheers, fear as Trump-appointed federal judge strikes down U.S. transit mask mandate
The mask mandate that applies to public transportation was recently extended by President Biden's administration until May 3.
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PublishedApril 17, 2022
$136 for a $2 bag of saline? Anthem, MaineHealth trade blame in billing disputes
Anthem accuses the hospital network of overbilling and hiding charges; MaineHealth says the insurer is arbitrarily withholding payments.
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PublishedApril 17, 2022
Data Sheet: Fatal drug overdoses
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PublishedApril 17, 2022
As state tightened opioid access, illegal drug trade created a deadly new era in Maine’s opioid crisis
Maine lawmakers and health officials realized easy access to prescription opioids was creating dependency issues and clamped down, but did not anticipate how well the illegal drug market would fill the void.
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PublishedApril 16, 2022
A work injury and a prescription. One Maine woman’s story of the cycle of addiction
Nikole Powell’s father developed an opioid use disorder after a work injury, a dependence that traumatized his family and eventually led to his incarceration and death. His daughter is trying to break the cycle.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
‘Lucky to be alive right now’: Rumford man credits doctors, awareness, luck for avoiding addiction
Like many patients prescribed opioids for chronic pain, Todd Papianou, a high school teacher from Rumford, knows the thin line between life-saving and life-destroying medication.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Data Sheet: Confirmed drug deaths
The Sun Journal analyzed annual confirmed drug death counts, from 1997 through September 2021, using data from drug death reports.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Data Sheet: Prescription distribution
The Sun Journal analyzed data from Maine’s Prescription Monitoring Program from 2016 to 2021; and data from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Automation of Reports and Consolidated Orders System from 2006 to 2014.
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
Data Sheet: Fatal and nonfatal overdoses 2017-2021
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PublishedApril 10, 2022
At the root of an epidemic in Maine: a prescription pad
Twenty years after Purdue Pharma introduced its pain medication, OxyContin, Maine lawmakers passed a bill that significantly stemmed the flow of pain pills into the state. A Sun Journal investigation found the new restrictions may have been too little, too late: A generation of Mainers were already grappling with substance use disorder and a growing illicit drug trade was ready to meet the demand.
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