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Western Maine Recovery Rally to be held Sept. 9
NORWAY — The Western Maine Addiction Recovery Initiative will host its second annual Western Maine Recovery Rally on Saturday, Sept. 9, with a march from Norway to Moore Park in Paris. The event will rally people to show community support for those in recovery from substance use disorders. Substance use, especially the use of heroin […]
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Second overdose victim found in Auburn apartment dies
AUBURN — Police reported Monday afternoon that the second of last week’s overdose victims died. Kevin Cooper, 50, was found unconscious Thursday night in his Mill Street apartment. He was taken to a Lewiston hospital. Deidre Hall, 39, also was found unconscious. She was declared dead. Police suspect both overdosed on heroin but their deaths remain […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Double overdose: Police investigate, friends mourn
AUBURN — Bonnie Waisanen on Friday didn’t know if she should be angry or sad. It turns out she was a little of both. Waisanen was in her first-floor apartment at 108 Mill St. on Thursday night when she learned that her friends in the apartment above had fallen unconscious. She rushed upstairs and tried […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Health groups want to increase access to naloxone
BANGOR (AP) — Four health care groups are working to increase access to the anti-opioid drug naloxone in the Bangor area. Naloxone is used to treat opioid overdoses. Eastern Maine Medical Center, St. Joseph Healthcare, Acadia Hospital and Penobscot Community Health Care are providing 500 survival kits to people who don’t have the ability to […]
Posted inNew England, sj-web
Maine drug overdose deaths more than double in past 5 years
CONCORD, N.H. — Drug overdose deaths have increased by 33 percent in the past five years across the country, with some states seeing jumps of nearly 200 percent. According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 30 states saw increases in overdose deaths resulting from the abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, News
Overcoming heroin prejudice, saving lives
PARIS — Oxford County Sheriff Wayne Gallant recently told a group of town administrators he had to change not only his way of thinking, but that of his deputies when dealing with the heroin epidemic after people continued to overdose and die. Now his department carries Narcan, a medicine that reverses the effects of an opioid […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Police say woman’s death at Dunkin’ Donuts was drug related
WINDHAM — Police in Maine say they believe the death of a woman whose body was found in a Windham Dunkin’ Donuts restroom is drug-related. Authorities identified the woman as 35-year-old Erica Foster, an employee of the shop. Police say the call came in at about 1:40 a.m. Saturday. Cumberland County sheriff’s deputies attempted unsuccessfully […]
Posted inAdvertiser Democrat, Lewiston-Auburn, Oxford Hills, River Valley
MDEA investigates possible overdose death of Harrison woman
LEWISTON — State drug agents are investigating the possible overdose death of a 18-year-old Harrison woman who died in Lewiston on Saturday. Matt Cashman, supervisor of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency’s Western District Task Force, said Monday that agency officers were investigating the death of Cassidy Patten. Patten was a 2015 graduate of Oxford Hills Comprehensive High […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
State trooper saves overdosing driver during traffic stop on I-295
PORTLAND — What started as a routine traffic stop for a Maine State trooper quickly turned into a life or death situation. WGME reported trooper Doug Cropper pulled the man over on Interstate 295 in Portland. The trooper said the man was talking and acting normally at first, but he returned to the car to return […]