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Posted inMaine, News
Augusta considers exchange program that pays to get used needles off the streets
The city could partner with a needle exchange program to offer people 5 cents for each used needle they turn in.
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Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Church of Safe Injection opens new peer-led recovery center
The Sanctuary will help bring resources to people in active drug use and those who are in recovery.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, News, Schools & Education
About 300 Lewiston middle schoolers get naloxone training as part of state mandate
As the state-mandated training for administering the overdose antidote makes its way to school districts across the state, hundreds of middle schoolers attended Lewiston’s training two days in a row. More than half of them chose to leave with a naloxone kit.
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, News, Oxford Hills, The Bethel Citizen
Oxford County Commission establishes advisory committee on opioid settlement money
Before any applications are reviewed, the committee will submit proposed application and review criteria to the commissioners.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Hundreds ‘rally for recovery’ in Lewiston’s Kennedy Park
Medical providers, advocates and those in sustained recovery congregated at Lewiston’s Kennedy Park for food, entertainment and to hear speakers share their stories and the latest in medicine combating substance use disorder.
Posted inHealth, News
A generation gone: How opioids have fueled the surge in overdose deaths in the past 25 years
Drug overdose deaths have taken thousands of lives in the last roughly 25 years in Maine, also having ripple effects on the loved ones of those who died.
Posted inHealth, Lewiston-Auburn, Maine, News
Maine’s sixth annual Opioid Response Summit draws hundreds to Auburn
Gov. Janet Mills thinks the enhanced prescription monitoring program is one of the factors that brought down the number of drug overdose deaths last year.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
Drug overdose deaths in Maine continue to decline after plummeting in 2023
The state is on track for a 9.8% decline in 2024 from the previous year, after seeing a 16% decrease in 2023.
Posted inHealth, Maine, News
In rural Maine, efforts to provide drug treatment often met with resistance, despite high demand
Only about 2,400 people live in the Lincoln County town of Whitefield, where a 54-bed recovery residence recently opened in spite of heavy opposition.