AUGUSTA, Maine — President Donald Trump’s top health lieutenant came to Maine on Wednesday with Kellyanne Conway, the Republican president’s controversial adviser, to discuss the opiate crisis with Gov. Paul LePage and more than a dozen law enforcement, health, treatment and other officials.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s listening tour kicked off last month, after the Trump administration announced $485 million in grants to states and territories to increase prevention, treatment and recovery services. Of that, $2 million will go to Maine.
Price said one of Trump’s top priorities is to “turn the tide” on opiate addiction.
Maine had more than one drug overdose death per day in 2017, a record high driven by rises in deaths that were attributed to fentanyl and heroin. In his opening remarks, Price called opiates a “scourge across this nation.”
The County is pleased to feature content from our sister company, Bangor Daily News. To read the rest of “HHS Secretary Price, Trump adviser Conway join LePage for opiate roundtable,” an article by contributing Bangor Daily News staff writer Michael Shepherd, please follow this link to the BDN online.
