John Richardson

Portland Press Herald

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Published
October 19, 2011

Police seeing increase in false theft reports for painkillers

Reports of stolen pain pills have become a weekly, if not daily, occurrence in police departments around Maine. While some reports are legitimate, police have no doubt that many of them, perhaps most, are false.
Published
October 19, 2011

Jailed addicts put wrench in the works

Providing treatment, monitoring withdrawal and stopping smuggling complicate the system.
Published
October 19, 2011

Jails learning how to deal with prescription drug abuse

BANGOR — Penobscot County Sheriff Glenn Ross remembers when running a jail was almost as simple as locking people up.
Published
October 19, 2011

Painkiller junkies fuel rise in violent robberies

Two armed robberies were enough for Chester Hibbard.
Published
October 18, 2011

Doctors improvise treating drug-affected babies

The physicians who care for Maine’s growing number of drug-affected babies didn’t learn what to do in medical school or from medical journals.
Published
October 18, 2011

Addiction’s tiniest victims

BANGOR — Mariah arrived this summer, on schedule and weighing in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces.
Published
October 18, 2011

Pain pill addiction torments even the most innocent

BANGOR — Mariah arrived this summer, on schedule and weighing in at 7 pounds, 2 ounces.
Published
October 18, 2011

Drug-affected babies present problems

The physicians who care for Maine’s growing number of drug-affected babies didn’t learn what to do in medical school, or from medical journals.
Published
October 18, 2011

Cellphone users may face more radiation risks

PORTLAND — Cellphone users may be in more danger from low-level radiation than they’re being told, researchers and public health advocates said Monday during a presentation at the University of Southern Maine.
Published
October 17, 2011

‘It was like he was somebody else’

SOUTH BERWICK — Matty Rix grew up in a community that had much to offer a happy, adventurous boy.