LEWISTON — Local and state police are tracking increasing sales of the potent opiate-derived drug fentanyl, which is being packaged and sold as pure heroin. “It’s been going on for some period of time, that it’s being sold and advertised as China White, but it is actually fentanyl,” said Agents Supervisor Matt Cashman of the […]
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‘It is a plague. It is merciless’: A son’s overdose, a mother’s plea for action
PORTLAND — She endured years of troubles, heartaches, courtrooms and counselors while trying to help her son regain a safe, sober life. Now Massachusetts resident Mary Gibson wants to spread a message about the horrors of heroin addiction. Her son, Andrew Gibson, 21, was found dead April 11 at his Cumberland Avenue apartment. “It is […]
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Fentanyl-laced heroin becoming a factor in overdoses
BRUNSWICK — During one 24-hour period last week, the Eastern Maine Medical Center emergency department treated five patients who had overdosed on drugs. Dr. Jack Nicolet, a physician who works in EMMC’s emergency room, suspects they had all taken too much heroin, and likely heroin laced with the painkiller fentanyl, an opioid 30 times more […]