A sedative named xylazine is being combined with fentanyl, and the combination is driving up the number of fatal overdoses in Maine and the United States.
FILE A discussion held by Penobscot County Cares featured Maine s Director of Opioid Response Gordon Smith, who provided updated statistics on the overdoses and deaths in the state this
At the height of the pandemic, people were unable to connect safely with their community. This fact alone had particularly deadly consequences for people suffering from substance use disorder here in Maine and across the country.
While the pandemic waxes and wanes, we are still losing people with substance use disorder every day.
Hello, this is Governor Janet Mills and thank you for listening.
News Center Maine reported that Marcella Sorg, research professor at the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, presented at the fourth annual Opioid Response Summit at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Sorg discussed Maine’s current strategies, from overdose surge tracking to forecasting Narcan needs […]