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 […]
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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 […]
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N.H. parents allegedly overdose while bathing their 3-year-old son
MANCHESTER, N.H. — Two parents are accused of overdosing on heroin while giving their son a bath. WGME 13 reported that Erick Carter and Stephanie McCassin were charged with endangering the welfare of a child. Police in Manchester said the grandmother of the 3-year-old boy found the child in the bathtub with the parents passed out. […]
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Two charged in suspected heroin overdose in New Sharon
NEW SHARON — Two people are charged with possessing heroin following a suspected drug overdose at a home on Farmington Falls Road last week, Sgt. Mathew Casavant of the Maine State Police said in a release. Maine State Police Trooper Keith Barton met with Daniel Villacci, 27, of New Sharon and charged him Saturday with […]
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Maine House OKs expanding heroin overdose antidote
AUGUSTA — After an initial vote in the House, a life-saving drug that can stop an opiate overdose in its tracks could well be on its way into the hands of more emergency responders, law enforcement officers, firefighters and addicts’ loved ones. Despite opposition from Republican Gov. Paul LePage, the House unanimously voted to give […]
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Deal in the works to win LePage’s support for drug that can stop heroin overdose
AUGUSTA, Maine — A deal is in the works to win Gov. Paul LePage’s support for a proposal to make naloxone — a life-saving, overdose-stopping drug — more readily available, said the bill’s sponsor. Naloxone, also known by its brand name, Narcan, blocks opioid receptors in the drug user’s brain, ending the euphoria and effects […]
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Police investigate apparent drug overdose in New Sharon
NEW SHARON — A child called a family member at about 5:15 p.m. Tuesday to report two unresponsive adults in the home at 545 Farmington Falls Road, police said Wednesday. The family member called Franklin County emergency dispatchers to report the situation, Sgt. Mathew Casavant of the Maine State Police said. One of the adults […]
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Maine legislative panel agrees to expand access to heroin overdose drug
AUGUSTA — A bill that Republican Gov. Paul LePage believes encourages a false sense of security for drug addicts but one that advocates say will save lives was approved by the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on a 7-4, party-line vote Monday. LD 1686, legalizes broader possession and administration of naloxone hydrochloride by a […]
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Maine’s Attorney General cites rising heroin abuse in Maine
AUGUSTA — Just as in Vermont, heroin abuse has grown in Maine, with 28 people in the state dying from an overdose in 2012. Attorney General Janet Mills says heroin use is on the rise, partly because of regulations restricting prescriptions for oxycodone and regulations requiring tamper-resistant packaging of prescription opioids. Mills said the 28 […]
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Man pleads not guilty in drug overdose death case
FARMINGTON — A Skowhegan man pleaded not guilty Friday to charges in connection to a drug overdose death in Farmington on Nov. 11, 2012. Justice Michaela Murphy added as a condition of his release that he follow a curfew from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m., except for employment. Eric Barnes, 28, pleaded not guilty to […]