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February 23, 2009

Getting addiction help in Maine

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If you are looking for drug treatment or alcohol addiction treatment in Maine we can help. Call us today and we will help you find the treatment solution that is right for you. We offer family care and individual treatment strategies for Maine residents.

Whether you are looking for help with, drug abuse, alcohol abuse, dual diagnosis or any other behavioral addiction in Maine we can help. You don’t need to scour the internet for a specific treatment center, as a matter of fact most of the most helpful addiction treatment centers in Maine don’t even have a website. We can help connect you with a facility in your area. Best of all, this service is free to you.

How we can help with addiction

Our mission is to get you the addiction help you need quickly. When you call we will give you a case manager who will be with you throughout the course of your treatment. This is very helpful as the case manager acts as a liaison between you, your treatment provider and your insurance company. We work with our treatment partners all over the country and we find you a treatment center that will work for your unique situation. We take your treatment needs, ability to pay, and location and come up with a solution that works for you. Best of all, you don’t need to pay us a thing for this service.

Maine Drug Abuse and Treatment Facts

In Maine in March 2004 %94 of people in treatment were in outpatient treatment. Of the remaining %6, %5 were in residential and %1 were in hospital based treatment. %77of Maine Treatment facilities accept Private health insurance and %85 accept Medicaid. In addition %55 provide services to those without the ability to pay.

(source: http://wwwdasis.samhsa.gov/webt/state_data/ME04.pdf)

State Facts
Population: 1,321,505
State Prison Population: 2,024
Probation Population: 9,322
Violent Crime Rate
National Ranking: 49

2005 Federal Drug Seizures
Cocaine: 4.8 kgs.
Heroin: 0.0 kgs.
Methamphetamine: 0.0 kgs./9 du
Marijuana: 329.6 kgs.
Hashish: 0.1 kgs
MDMA: 0.0 kgs/93 du
Methamphetamine Laboratories: 3 (DEA, state, and local)

Sources

Drug Situation: Marijuana, locally grown and imported from Canada, Massachusetts, and New York, remains the primary drug of abuse in Maine. The use and availability of cocaine, heroin, and diverted pharmaceuticals continues to increase. Methamphetamine remains a minor concern, but significant potential exists for production and distribution in the state. Interstate 95 provides an important north-south transportation route for traffickers travelling most frequently to sources of drug supply in several northeastern Massachusetts cities. Additionally, Maine’s 228 miles of coastline and 3,478 miles of shoreline offer ample opportunities for maritime smugglers.

Cocaine: Cocaine is available throughout the state in fractional-ounce to kilogram quantities. Residents, primarily Caucasians, have historically utilized Interstate 95 in passenger vehicles to meet cocaine suppliers, generally Dominican violators based in Lawrence, Lowell, and Lynn, MA. The popularity of crack cocaine continues to increase in southern and central Maine communities, with Biddeford and Lewiston serving as the main distribution points for dealers.

Heroin: Massachusetts-based Dominican traffickers continue to be the primary suppliers of high quality heroin to the Maine distributors. These distributors, who typically transport the drug in passenger vehicles, provide for an increasing availability of heroin in the state. While use is more prevalent in southern communities, it is also encountered in coastal and Canadian-border communities and has spread into rural and remote areas. Heroin abuse has increased, particularly among younger teenagers in Bridgeton, Rockland, Penobscot, and York counties.

Methamphetamine: There is a potential for methamphetamine to become a problem in Maine. Abuse and availability have increased in Aroostook County. Low quality metamphetamine is often express-mailed into the state from California and the southwestern states. Trafficking groups supplying methamphetamine to the state generally are connected to outlaw motorcycle clubs or are members of “the rave set.”

The seized methamphetamine labs serve as a reminder that Maine’s size and predominantly rural population create an ideal environment for large-scale methamphetamine manufacturing.

Club Drugs: Law enforcement officials in southern Maine have noticed a small increase in the use of MDMA, which continues to be associated with rave parties and the student population.

Marijuana: Marijuana, historically the illicit drug of choice in the state, is plentiful and readily available. Year-round indoor grows are common, but high grade marijuana cultivated in Canada has been smuggled over the border. Commercial grade marijuana is often obtained from middlemen in the southern New England states and New York. Hashish is available sporadically in small quantities, but the increasing popularity of hashish in Canada may change the situation in Maine. Traffickers have moved hashish and hash oil through Maine and into Canada. Caucasian traffickers typically supply locally grown marijuana as well as marijuana shipped from the southwest border and Canada. Shipments ranging from 15 to 500 pounds typically enter the state via Interstate 95 in automobiles, campers, rental trucks, and tractor-trailers. Motorcycle groups continue to control much of the marijuana distribution in Maine, using associates to distribute approximately 300 to 500 pounds monthly.

Marijuana Legislation: Maine has a number of statutes related to marijuana possession, cultivation, trafficking, therapeutic research programs, paraphernalia, illegal importation, and asset forfeiture. These laws are often cited as the reason that Maine residents must travel to obtain their illicit drugs from out-of-state traffickers wary of the state’s tough drug laws.

Other Drugs: PCP purchased in Boston, MA is available in the southern portion of the state; LSD, available in gelcap form, is abused by young students; and psilocybin mushrooms, most often obtained from commercially available cultivation kits, are available in Maine. The state continues to experience an increase in the availability of diverted pharmaceuticals. Oxycodone products such as PercocetÂ®, RoxicetÂ®, and OxyContinÂ® are readily available. DilaudidÂ® is found in Washington County, including the city of Calais. Many instances of doctor shopping schemes, falsified prescriptions, and pharmacy robberies of OxyContinÂ® have been experienced in Lincoln County and the Portland area. Diverted Canadian pharmaceuticals also are being smuggled into Maine.

Pharmaceutical Diversion: Current investigations indicate that diversion of OxyContinÂ® continues to be a problem in Maine. Primary methods of diversion being reported are illegal sale and distribution by health care professionals and workers. Methadone was also identified as being among the most commonly abused and diverted pharmaceuticals in Maine.

DEA Mobile Enforcement Teams: This cooperative program with state and local law enforcement counterparts was conceived in 1995 in response to the overwhelming problem of drug-related violent crime in towns and cities across the nation. Since the inception of the MET Program, 473 deployments have been completed nationwide, resulting in 19,643 arrests. Since the inception of the program, there has been one MET deployment in the State of Maine, in Lewiston.

DEA Regional Enforcement Teams: This program was designed to augment existing DEA division resources by targeting drug organizations operating in the United States where there is a lack of sufficient local drug law enforcement. This program was conceived in 1999 in response to the threat posed by drug trafficking organizations that have established networks of cells to conduct drug trafficking operations in smaller, non-traditional trafficking locations in the United States. As of January 31, 2005, there have been 27 deployments nationwide, and one deployment in the U.S. Virgin Islands, resulting in 671 arrests. There have been no RET deployments in the state of Maine.

Other Enforcement Operations: Interstate 95, “The New England Pipeline,” remains the interdiction focus in Maine since it travels through the interior of the state, connects several of the larger cities, and terminates at the Canadian border.

Information reproduced from the public domain at http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/pubs/states/Maine.html

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