Welcome & Introductions /
- Review of Agenda
Addressing Drug Overdose Deaths in Maine /
- Focus on High Risk Population
- Have had many successes, more still needs to be done overdose deaths still on the rise in ME
- Critical for this work to happen within the community starting with the FD, EMS, Police, Hospitals all communicating and understanding what the tx options are within their community
- Need for Rapid low barrier treatment within our communities, need to increase where and how these tx options exist
- Current options and tx are not consistent across the state
- 14 states showed a decrease in 2016, we need to learn what they are doing to decrease overdose deaths within their states to figure out if any of these programs can be implemented within our state
- Examples
- Mass General “Bridge Clinic
- RI “Levels of Care
- ME MidCoast ED providing rapid access
- There has not been enough data collection in the state or US to have a full understanding on the high-risk areas
- There is not enough quick rapid access to treatment MAT/MAR, naloxone. We need to understand who is doing what, what services are available within a community and what are the barriers for pt’s within that community, how do we overcome these barriers
- Stigma/bias around these cases needs to change
- Project Lazarus out of California, Decreased overdose deaths in 3 yrs by 73%
- App developed by HIDTA which is an overdose map, smartphone access for police, EMS
- Recovery in the community needs to be strengthened in ME
- Nalaxone is not being used and available in ME as widely as it should be to prevent overdose deaths
- All - Will be thinking about how to get out into communities
Future Caring for ME Efforts /
- We would like to be responsive around what you all feel we should be working on, are there specific issues this group feels that we should be addressing
- Lisa L – Giant issue around perinatal addiction/prevention/assistance
- Ron Watson – Lack of coordinated groups like this, how do we create that communication within the communities? Lisa L – would love this group to become ambassadors of this work, looking for ideas from this group on how do we do that. Ron – Create an ambassador group out of this group
Update on Legislative Task Force and Policy Issues
Partner Updates /
- QC NNE-ECHO: MAT ECHO opportunity
- Registration is open final draft of the language is attached to the meeting email along with the registration link
- SAMHSA funding opportunity: Targeted Capacity Expansion for MAT (FOA T1-18-009)
- Noah – tomorrow morning we are signing a pledge in Belfast on a bridging program community stakeholders group.
- Patty H – 2nd One life event in Bangor
- MICIS Trainings tonight and 6/26 at the Augusta Civic Center on OUD & MAR
- Amy B. Save the date on EAT, SLEEP, event in Portland
- Liz Miller – New BH tool to come Stigma tool
- Topics for the next meeting ideas
- Feature Liz @ stigma tool in August
- Hilary – July to talk about how they got their opioid round table up and running within their community
Meeting wrap-up / Thank you to all the participants for their work. Our next virtual meeting is on July 11th 9-10am EST. If you have topics or agenda items, please email . /
- All: continue to share activities and events going on in your communities!
Chat Log Resources:
From Sue Woods to Everyone: 09:44 AM
Also: Leana Wen post in Medium -
From Ron Watson to Everyone: 09:48 AM
I was going to skip over sharing this today but I have been speaking with a police department in West Virginia that has a pretty interesting program to address risk factors in childhood:
From Hilary Leonhard to Everyone: 09:57 AM
York Hospital started a community-based "Opioid Roundtable" that meets quarterly. The group includes members from law enforcement, EMS, medical staff, school counselors, adult education, community service organizations, behavioral health, people in recovery, community health coalitions, faith community and other local groups interested in addressing the opioid problem, together. Very 'grass-roots' and successful. Feel free to contact me with questions: or (207)351-3430