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Augusta eyes drug-treatment referral program as Waterville chief touts local response to opioid epidemic

Waterville's Operation HOPE provides access, transportation, to referrals to substance-use disorder treatment centers, and Augusta city officials are interested in establishing those services in Maine's capital city as well. ....

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Augusta to seek federal grant to help fight substance use disorder, overdoses

Augusta to seek federal grant to help fight substance use disorder, overdoses
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AUGUSTA City officials are seeking a federal grant to try a new approach, modeled after a program used by the Waterville Police Department, to help Augusta residents with substance use disorder enter treatment and to reduce the growing number of drug overdose deaths.
The proposed program would be based out of the Augusta Fire Department, and have a beginning budget of about $250,000 for an 18-month pilot project.
City councilors voted last week to authorize the city to apply for the grant through the office of U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-1st District. The deadline to apply is Monday. ....

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Augusta may tap state resources to reach out to residents with substance use problems

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AUGUSTA The growing number of drug overdose deaths has the city planning to further partner with the state to reach out to drug users, and their loved ones, to try to save lives.
And in some cases it may even mean helping people with substance use disorder use illegal drugs more safely, with harm reduction strategies.
City councilors met Thursday with the state’s Opioid Response Project Manager Rowland Robinson who offered the city the use of the state’s OPTIONS initiative media campaign materials on city social media, CTV-7 television station and other city outlets.
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The OPTIONS initiative which stands for Overdose Prevention Through Intensive Outreach, Naloxone and Safety is a state program introduced last year by Gov. Janet Mills to assist those suffering from substance use disorders and curb fatal opioid drug overdoses. ....

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Augusta may tap state resources to reach out to residents with substance use problems

Augusta may tap state resources to reach out to residents with substance use problems
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Augusta task force advocates for substance use recovery readiness

Augusta task force advocates for substance use recovery readiness
Officials say the coronavirus pandemic has left more people isolated who have turned to increasingly dangerous opiates.
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AUGUSTA With projections showing more people died of drug overdoses in Maine in 2020 than ever before, leaders of a substance use task force told city councilors Thursday Augusta needs to become a recovery ready community.
Leaders of the recently-formed Ad-Hoc Substance Use Task Force Advisory Committee, who expect to finalize their goals next week, said opiate use has spiked in the city, state, country and the world, and the problem became worse as people struggled through the coronavirus pandemic and its restrictions which left many people isolated and vulnerable. ....

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