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The state experienced a 16 percent decrease in fatal overdoses in 2023, which is more than five times the nationwide decline. This was also the state’s first year-over-year reduction in fatalities since 2018.
Council members say the slow approach is deliberate, and hope to start soliciting grant proposals next month.
Overdose deaths through October were down 11.7% compared with the same time period in 2022.
Maine has now witnessed the true horror of mass gun violence.
The 4,000-member organization is the fifth state medical association to pass a resolution calling for universal health care insurance coverage.