Sorg’s Analysis of Drug Deaths in the News

Professor Marcella Sorg’s recent analysis of drug deaths in Maine forms the basis of a story in the Bangor Daily News today. Her research indicates that In the first six months of 2016, 189 people in Maine died by drug overdose, an increase of 50 percent over the same time last year. Dr. Marcella Sorg is a University of Maine medical and forensic anthropologist and Policy Center research professor  who analyzes overdose deaths for the state’s attorney general.

Read the story here:
Maine suffers record number of fatal drug overdoses in first half of 2016

Maine suffers record number of fatal drug overdoses in first half of 2016