The Maine Office of Attorney General has released the most recent measure of drug deaths in Maine in a report compiled by Professor Marcella Sorg of the Policy Center, revealing a slight decline since the previous year. The 2018 third-quarter drug death report found that from January to September, the total number of drug-related deaths was […]
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Dr. Marcella Sorg’s research on drug deaths is in the news, revealing the increasing role of fentanyl. The figures on drug deaths recently released by the Attorney General and the Chief Medical Examiner were compiled by Dr. Marcella Sorg of the University of Maine’s Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. The first quarter figures show that […]
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Research Professor Marcella Sorg will be leading an in-depth epidemiological “hot-spot” analysis of fentanyl-related deaths in New Hampshire on behalf of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the University of Maryland’s National Drug Early Warning System. The hot-spot study is currently featured on the National Drug Early Warning System’s website: https://ndews.umd.edu/featuredcontent/1725 Dr. Sorg and research […]
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