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AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Republican Gov. Paul LePage’s administration has increased reimbursement rates for medication-assisted treatment thanks to funding passed by lawmakers to address the opioid crisis.
The administration last month passed emergency rules raising reimbursement rates from $496 per patient each month to new tiered rates of $663 to $2,200.
Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services Executive Director Malory Shaughnessy praised the administration’s steps. She said the system has enough flexibility to ensure individuals can receive the kind of evidence-based treatment and recovery services they need.
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Drug Users Can Now Test Their Stash for Fentanyl
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Jul 14 2017, 10:00am
Drug overdoses are now officially the leading cause of death in Americans under 50, according to a report compiled by the New York Times last month. The data suggests that overdose deaths likely exceeded 59,000 last year, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States. Many of those deaths were due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
How the Koch Brothers Are Fighting the Opioid Crisis
BOSTON—As Scott Strode walked through the maze of South Boston traffic islands and warehouses near his newest gym, he pointed down to a discarded syringe on the ground.Sunday, May 5, 2019
Tips on finding clues of substance abuse
May 3, 2019 at 5:41p.m 
By ED RUNYAN
runyan@vindy.com
CHAMPION
Longtime narcotics investigators Shawn Bain and Michael Powell of Columbus told an audience Friday at the 2019 drug summit at Kent State Trumbull that when they visit families who have lost someone to drug addiction, they see “a lot of enabling.”
Powell said the trouble is when word gets around that a young person is using alcohol or drugs, the attitude is too often, “Jimmy is drinking a little bit, smoking a bit of weed. Well that’s what young people do in our country. It’s just a little bit of marijuana. It’s just a little bit of alcohol.”
Some years later, if Jimmy is in danger of dying from drugs, we take it more seriously. “But I think it’s a little late to show we care.”
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