Drug
maker launches
anti-abuse campaign
Bangor
Daily News
June
19, 2003
PORTLAND (AP) — The maker of the
powerful painkiller OxyContin will fund an
education campaign in Maine and three
other states to combat prescription drug
abuse among teenagers.
Drug
firm targeting
misuse by teens
Portland Press
Herald
June 19, 2003
The maker of OxyContin plans to announce
today it will fund an education campaign
combating prescription drug abuse
among teenagers.
Loring
eyed for drug treatment site
Bangor Daily News
May 29, 2003
BAR HARBOR - The nonprofit group that
hopes to establish the state's first long-
term residential drug treatment center
will develop a proposal to use part of
the former Loring Air Force Base in
Limestone, group officials said
Wednesday.The idea is preliminary,
and the Maine Lighthouse Corp. has
a lot of work ahead in order to craft
a new proposal, according to Douglas
Chapman, a Bar Harbor attorney who
recruited some of Maine's top
community leaders to join his effort.
Down
East looks to curb
drug epidemic
Bangor Daily
News
May 15, 2003
MACHIAS - The state's top public safety
official said Wednesday he will make
arrangements by July 1 to provide
Washington County with a second Maine
Drug Enforcement Agency agent.Public
Safety Commissioner Michael Cantara
saved his announcement for the end of
his keynote address at the Washington
County Drug Summit, saying that
additional law enforcement is "at the
tailpipe end of things" when it comes to
addressing the county's epidemic of
opiate addiction.
Twin
summits on drug abuse
scheduled in Machias, Calais
Bangor Daily News
May 3, 2003
Machias –
Attorney General Steven Rowe
and Commissioner of Public Safety
Michael Carata will be the keynote
speakers later this month at twin summit
meetings on Washington County’s drug
problems.
Former
addict keynotes
opiate addiction forum
Bangor Daily News
May 3, 2003
BANGOR - Kate Garceau never planned
on being a junkie. At 14, she was a
"normal kid," she told an attentive
audience Friday at a daylong conference
on opiate addiction. She'd grown up in
an upper middle-class family in southern
Maine with plenty of support and
supervision. She was popular and doing
well in school, and when she started
experimenting with drugs, she said,
"I understood there were risks, but I didn't
think they were bad enough that I was
going to fall over and die from them."
3
WCTC students charged
in campus computer thefts
Bangor
Daily News
May
1, 2003
CALAIS - Three
men have been accused
of stealing computer equipment valued at
more than $10,000 from Washington
County Technical College, and the items
were recovered at the University of Maine
in Orono.
Syringes
found on
Jonesboro road
Bangor Daily News
April 18, 2003
JONESBORO - The Washington
County Sheriff's Department is advising
parents to warn their children about
finding and handling needles after a
discovery in Jonesboro this week.Lt.
Michael Riggs, the department's drug
investigator, said a man brought in a
plastic bag with more than 50
hypodermic syringes and two spoons
that he found at the entrance to a woods
road on Route 187, just a few miles from
Route 1.
Ex-Calais
athlete in court on
revocation motion
Bangor Daily
News
April 18, 2003
MACHIAS —
A former Calais High
School basketball star who is on
probation for burglary was back in court
Thursday in connection with criminal
speeding and lastmonth’s arrest of an
alleged drug dealer in Bangor.
UMM
students to address
region's drug problems
Bangor Daily News
April 16, 2003
MACHIAS - Some students at the
University of Maine at Machias are
proposing solutions to the region's drug
abuse problems. They will present their
findings April 25-29 in a campus display.
in a news release Tuesday, UMM said
the students are participants in
a behavioral science senior seminar.
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Six
people indicted as part of
Down East drug sweep
Bangor Daily
News
April 11, 2003
MACHIAS - A Washington County
grand jury Thursday indicted six people
who were arrested in a Jan. 30 sweep
spearheaded by the Maine Drug
Enforcement Agency.MDEA, working
with informants and surveillance, built a
case for nearly a year against the
Washington County residents, and in
January the investigation culminated in
arrests in the Baileyville and Calais areas.
Down
East drug abuse
in
spotlight
Conferences seek community
suggestions about fighting problem
Bangor
Daily News
April 8,
2003
MACHIAS -
Suggestions from the
community on how Washington County
can address its drug abuse problems
will be the focus of all-day conferences
in Machias and Calais on May 14 and 15.
The sessions will be sponsored by the
Washington County Drug Action Team,
a group of social service providers, law
enforcement officers, medical personnel,
educators and others.
DAMMADD
gives donation to
Lubec
school
Bangor Daily
News
March 19, 2003
LUBEC - Civil rights teams at Lubec
Consolidated School have become the
first organizations in Maine to benefit
from a reward program established by
a Web-based group called Dads and
Moms Mad About Drug Dealers.
Probe
of man's death continues
State awaits tests in possible
overdose
Bangor
Daily News
March 15,
2003
BAILEYVILLE - The autopsy of a local
man who may have died as a result of a
drug overdose was completed Friday, but
the state Medical Examiner's Office said
the cause of death could not be
determined until the results of toxicology
tests were received.
1
dead, 1 hospitalized in
possible overdoses
Bangor Daily
News
March 14, 2003
BAILEYVILLE - One man died and another
was hospitalized Thursday as the result of
possible drug overdoses, according to
police. The men apparently were
together at a party Wednesday night at
351 Main St. They were in homes
about five miles apart Thursday
morning when authoritieswere alerted.
Drug
abuse is too costly for
Maine lawmakers to overlook
Kennebec Journal
March 9, 2003
The chair of the Governor's Commission
on Substance Abuse Services, Rick
Karges outlined important actions to
combat alcohol and drug abuse in our
communities in his Jan. 31 opinion column.
We agree that it is time for a renewed
emphasis on Maine's substance abuse
policies.
Woman
struck friend with
shovel, police say
Bangor Daily News
March 4, 2003
CALAIS - A 22-year-old woman was
charged with assault with a dangerous
weapon after she allegedly struck a friend
with a shovel. She later was charged with
possession of prescription drugs. Melissa
Manza's husband, Ralph Manza, 32, also
was arrested and charged with furnishing
prescription drugs.
Emerging from the darkness
Bangor Daily News
January 6, 2003
Heroin was once a big-city drug
known to most Mainers only from
movies or books.Today, however, the
powerful illegal narcotic is readily
available in many parts of the state,
even in small,
rural communities
such as Bar Harbor and Machias.
Addicted:
family's patience
wearing
thin
Bangor
Daily News
January 4,
2003
Teen's struggle with drugs deepens as
efforts to get help denied while for many
the holiday season is a time of bringing
family together, Stanlia and Warren
Bellefleur have spent these recent weeks
wondering about the whereabouts of their
teenage granddaughter, knowing wherever
she's been, she's likely been desperately
looking for a heroin fix to feed
her addiction.
Man
gets 10 years for
drug
dealing
Bangor Daily
News
February 20, 2003
MACHIAS - A
judge sentenced a
Pleasant Point man Wednesday to 10
years in prison for drug trafficking, telling
him he should have been a leader rather
than a dealer. Ralph Francis Jr., 65, was
charged in 1999 with aggravated trafficking
in OxyContin. It was 1999 when the
Maine Drug Enforcement Agency, working
with area police, began to crack down on
prescription drug abuse in Washington
County. Francis was in the first wave
of arrests.
Busted
Bangor Daily
News
February 22, 2003
The hunt for people suspected of dealing
drugs down east involves patience, as a
steel door marked "Intake" slams shut
behind them, two handcuffed men walk
down a narrow hallway in the
Washington County Jail, escorted by
two officers.
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