The Addiction Resource Center
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• Bath-Brunswick addiction program seen as possible model
  The Addiction Resource Center may be responsible for the low overdose death rate in the midcoast area, thanks to its emphasis on efficiency and timely delivery of services. (7/3/2016)
• Law enforcement in Midcoast, health care providers team up to fight addiction
  After months of planning law enforcement officials in several Midcoast communities have signed an agreement with health care agencies to work together to combat drug addiction. (7/15/2016)
• Maine county’s new approach to drug abuse goes beyond arrests
  In an effort to combat what Boothbay Harbor Police Chief Robert Hasch called “the problem of our time,” Lincoln County law enforcement and addiction treatment providers have undertaken a countywide collaboration designed to make drug treatment programs available locally to those suffering with addiction — particularly to heroin and other opiates. (7/15/2016)
• Brunswick drug treatment center offers addicts ‘second chance’
  In September, results of a national study showed Haram and his staff what Yamauchi and dozens of other clients at the center already knew: Patients at the Addiction Resource Center improve at twice to nearly four times the national average rate when compared with 15,000 similar programs around the country. The center’s outpatients improved at more than twice the national average, according to the study, while those in the partial hospitalization program had an improvement rate nearly four times the national average, according to the study by Harvard McLean Hospital. (12/8/2012)

Additional Resources:

• Behavioral Health at Mid Coast Hospital