Letter: Expand Maine’s Good Samaritan Law To Help Save Lives

Opinion Contributor, Bangor Daily News
Fri, 01/21/2022 - 10:42am

Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com. An estimated 635 Mainers lost their lives due to drug overdoses in 2021. Each of these deaths was preventable. It is therefore essential that we use every available tool to shift our response to the overdose epidemic away from the current criminalization model to one emphasizing public health. One such strategy is expansion of the Good Samaritan law.

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Letter: Expand Maine’s Good Samaritan Law To Help Save Lives

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