Fprescription Painkillers in Maine: But Funding for Treatment Also Saves Money. Series: Fprescription Painkillers in Maine: A Cure That Came with a Curse
Portland Press Herald › October 17, 2011
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It's obvious that preventing painkiller abuse and reducing addiction would save lives. But it would also save a lot of money, even help balance the state budget.
MaineCare, the Medicaid health insurance program for low-income children and adults, is in the center of Maine's prescription drug abuse epidemic. The state paid about $473 million of the program's $2.5 billion budget last year.See the full content of this document
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Fprescription Painkillers in Maine: But Funding for Treatment Also Saves Money. Series: Fprescription Painkillers in Maine: A Cure That Came with a Curse
State officials say they don't know how much pain-pill abuse costs MaineCare each year. But there are three obvious ways that drug abuse is a significant drain.
* First of all, some recovering addicts say they have routinely us...See the full content of this document
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