More Maine Doctors Requiring Patients to Agree to Drug Tests

More Maine doctors requiring patients to agree to drug tests

Filed under: Drug Abuse Portland

LEWISTON — More and more Maine doctors and hospitals are asking patients to sign a controlled-substances agreement that allows them to request blood or urine samples in an effort to fight the state's prescription drug abuse problem. Patients who don't …
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7-year-old gets medical marijuana to combat chemo

Filed under: Drug Abuse Portland

… gets medical marijuana to combat chemo 1 comment. PORTLAND (AP) — A seven-year-old girl suffering from leukemia is one of Oregon's youngest medical marijuana patients. Her mother says she gives her daughter marijuana pills to combat the effects of …
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Hunting and awards season

Filed under: Drug Abuse Portland

… November 1, I got a press release stating that “Day One Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services will present an award tonight to the Maine Prescription Drug Abuse Task Force at the Day One 39th Annual Celebration at Sable Oaks in South Portland.
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judges' book appeals to 'better angels' in divorce proceedings

Filed under: Drug Abuse Portland

It's about a young woman whose substance abuse problem had its roots in her parents' drawn-out, caustic divorce. Various treatment options hadn't helped the woman, and she was before Kennedy for the latest in a string of drug-related criminal probation …
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