Study finds increase in medication use to treat opioid use disorder © WMTW image A USM researcher contributed to a report which found a roughly 10% rise in the number of Medicaid patients receiving medication-assisted treatment.
Both Maine and the United States saw a record number of overdose deaths in 2020.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday approximately 93,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2020. Sign up for our Newsletters
A report said 504 Mainers died from overdoses during the same period, according to Maine s Office of the Attorney General.
For a year and a half, Kate Ahrens, an Assistant Research Professor at the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School of Public Service, analyzed the state’s Medicaid data.
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