Portland and the Promise of Recovery

As the country struggles with the opioid epidemic, people are settling in this Maine city to start a new life in sobriety.

By Tamara Kerrill Field ContributorApril 9, 2019, at 6:00 a.m.

PORTLAND, MAINE – THE opioid epidemic has exacted its blood price from Maine. Since 1999, there has been a more than 500 percent increase in overdose deaths, giving it the eighth-highest mortality rate among states in the nation.

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