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AUGUSTA The Maine Department of Health and Human Services and Partnership to End Addiction launched a free texting service that alerts Maine residents to any sudden increase in overdoses in their counties and connects them with resources that can save lives, support those struggling with substance use, and promote recovery.
Residents including parents, caregivers, medical professionals, first responders, community groups and those struggling with substance use in all Maine counties can sign up for the Partnership’s SPIKE Auto Text Program.
Individuals can sign up by texting SPIKE to (855) 963-5669 (855-9-OD-KNOW) and following the prompts.
The program will link them to resources through Maine’s OPTIONS initiative, which is placing mobile response teams in each Maine county to engage communities with high rates of drug overdoses to promote harm reduction strategies, connect people directly to recovery services and treatment, and distr
This week, the Office of the Maine Attorney General released a very sad report. Its annual report of drug overdose fatalities. That report reveals that 2020 was the deadliest year on record for drug overdoses. The report showed that 504 deaths were caused by drugs in 2020, a 33% increase over the 380 the year before in 2019. 336 of those deaths were due to non-pharmaceutical fentanyl, a 30% increase in fentanyl deaths over 2019.
Mills Administration Commends Enhanced Reporting of Drug Overdose Data | Office of Governor Janet T Mills maine.gov - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from maine.gov Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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The Kentucky Opioid Response Effort (KORE) has announced the award of four grants to support the establishment or expansion of four Recovery Community Centers. The grants total $1.5 million to be awarded over two years.
New grant recipients include Recovery Café in Lexington, Achieving Recovery Together (ART) in Winchester, and Shepherd’s House in Nicholasville. Voices of Hope (VOH) Recovery Community Center in Lexington, which had previously received KORE funding in support of its services, will receive a new round of funding to launch mobile recovery support services to more communities within the Lexington, Frankfort, and Louisville areas.