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Feb 22, 2022

With the pandemic waning, it’s time to deal with drug and alcohol deaths, panel finds

Dec 2, 2022

By Susan Cover Maine PUBLISHED 2:11 PM ET Nov. 30, 2022 Gordon Smith’s office gets calls every day from people struggling to find help with substance use disorder. As the state’s director of opioid response, he hears from mothers and fathers who have lost a family member to an overdose. And he hears from those who…

With the worst of the pandemic hopefully behind us, now is the time to finally develop a statewide strategic plan to rebuild our behavioral health system and ensure that our most vulnerable residents have access to community support and the services necessary to live safe and productive lives. Our system is simply too fragile to endure another crisis. We can and must do better.

Oct 18, 2022

Credit: George Danby / BDN The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Malory Shaughnessy is the executive director of the Alliance for Addiction and Mental Health Services. Betsy Sweet is senior advocate with the Behavioral Health Community Collaborative.…

Maine hospitals, mental health advocates want more funding to address gaps

Mar 3, 2022

Author: Don Carrigan Published: 9:30 PM EST March 2, 2022 “Hospital leaders, including Scott Oxley, president of Acadia Hospital in Bangor, said the major problem causing extended patient stays in emergency rooms is a lack of community and residential mental health services. They said the chronic underfunding of those programs, coupled with a worsening shortage of mental…

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