All posts tagged "drugs"
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Portland orders Deering Oaks Park cleanup ahead of LePage press conference on crime, drugs
Portland city officials cleared trash and a homeless encampment from Deering Oaks Park...
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Halsey Frank: Maine’s new, not-so-good Samaritan law
Harm reductionists praise Maine’s new Good Samaritan law. I’m not sure it’s deserved. I will...
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Fentanyl now the leading cause of death for adults ages 18 to 45
US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data now show fentanyl overdose...
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Preliminary data show record overdose deaths in Maine last year
A preliminary estimate of drug-related deaths indicates 636 people died in Maine as...
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Should California be able to set drug prices in Maine?
Imagine if California passed a law telling Maine lobstermen how much to charge...
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Healthcare group asks Gov. Mills to veto prescription drug price control bill
The Maine Legislature recently passed LD 1117, a bill that would prohibit excessive...
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Maine’s flavored tobacco ban is destined to fail
As we all learned in our high school history classes, the United States...
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In 2020, New Hampshire’s opioid issues got better while Maine’s got worse
So-called “deaths of despair,” those involving drug abuse, alcohol, or suicide, have been...
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Congress should preserve public quality standards for biologic drugs
A powerful committee in the U.S. Senate is considering legislation that could have...
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Serious problems require serious solutions
Some things aren’t always what they seem. Such is the case in the...
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Fixing addiction from the ground up
Chief Robert MacKenzie runs a police department in Kennebunk, Maine, a town of...
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Deficits, Debts, and Drug Addiction
A three part series on chronic abuse of other peoples’ money Part I: The...
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The Fight Against the Heroin Epidemic
One of the most serious problems that Maine and our Nation face today...
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The TANF Drug-Testing Weekly Series Part I: Clarifying Exactly How Maine’s New Drug-Testing Program for TANF Recipients Works
This is the first installment of a weekly series focused on discussing how...
