AUBURN — It started when Corey Coburn’s car hit a patch of ice on Upland Road in Lisbon. The car wrapped around a tree, caving in the roof, which slit his face from his forehead to his nose, his mother, Heidi-Sue Stuart, said. He managed to climb out the rear window to the side of […]
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Nearly 1 in 3 Medicare beneficiaries get opioid prescriptions
CHICAGO — Nearly 12 million Medicare beneficiaries received at least one prescription for an opioid painkiller last year at a cost of $4.1 billion, according to a federal report that shows how common the addictive drugs are in many older Americans’ medicine cabinets. With an overdose epidemic worsening, nearly one-third of Medicare beneficiaries received at […]
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Wilton Republican wants to fight drug crisis with Medicaid expansion
The move to expand is backed by the state’s hospitals, as well as advocates for the poor and a large portion of Maine’s law-enforcement community. “Increasing access to MaineCare coverage means increasing access to mental health counseling, drug addiction treatment and counseling and preventive health care, providing measurable cost-savings and beneficial health outcomes across Maine,” Saviello […]
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Meeting is not open to public
AUGUSTA — A story that appeared on Page A3 of Saturday’s Sun Journal about an opioid abuse roundtable hosted by U.S. Sen. Angus King should have said it is not open to the public. It was a reporting error.
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King plans opoid abuse roundtable a day ahead of LePage’s summit
AUGUSTA – Just a day before Maine’s Republican Gov. Paul LePage will host a summit meeting on Maine’s ever-growing heroin abuse problem, U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, will host his own roundtable on a similar topic. LePage’s summit is planned for Wednesday, Aug. 26, and King has called his meeting for Tuesday, Aug. 25, in […]