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PublishedOctober 18, 2019
Maine Voices: Our state should embrace overdose prevention sites as the evidence-based step they are
A federal judge recently ruled that they're not illegal, and data show that they save money, save lives and serve as a bridge into treatment.
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PublishedOctober 1, 2019
Rockland man gets 9 months for selling drugs linked to fatal overdose
Cody A. Gnosini-Rubenstein sold drugs to John Leiter the day before he was found dead in July 2017.
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PublishedSeptember 17, 2019
Bangor woman charged in 1-year-old’s fentanyl-linked death
Police say the child died in October 2018 of probable toxic effects of fentanyl, and have charged a 33-year-old woman with child endangerment.
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PublishedSeptember 7, 2019
Commentary: Usual responses to drug epidemics won’t reverse fentanyl fatalities
Solutions should focus on creative supply disruption, supervised opioid use sites and new forms of treatment.
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PublishedJuly 25, 2019
You can’t overdose on fentanyl by touching it
The misconception regarding the dangers of accidental overdose is dangerous and harmful.
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PublishedJune 20, 2019
Police seize more than 50 pounds of opioids, cocaine in Massachusetts
Fourteen people are arrested in a takedown of a major opioid trafficking operation that sold drugs throughout the Northeast.
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PublishedApril 5, 2019
Westbrook police charge 2 with dealing meth, fentanyl near school
Westbrook police and the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency arrest 2 people at a Saco Street apartment Thursday night.
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PublishedJanuary 29, 2019
Maine man who killed burglar sentenced to prison on drug, gun charges
Jordan Richard, 25, of New Vineyard gets more than 13 years in federal prison for conspiracy to distribute heroin and fentanyl, among other drugs, and discharging a firearm.
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PublishedDecember 30, 2018
Subject of intense FBI manhunt heads to trial Jan. 7
Joshua Weldon was arrested in Springvale in November after eluding authorities for weeks.
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PublishedDecember 19, 2018
New Hampshire ex-physician assistant convicted of taking kickbacks for fentanyl
A drug manufacturer paid the man to prescribe the drug and to speak in favor of it at events.
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