News Center Maine reports on Sorg presentation at Opioid Response Summit
News Center Maine reported that Marcella Sorg, research professor at the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, presented at the fourth annual Opioid Response Summit at Cross Insurance Center in Bangor. Sorg discussed Maine’s current strategies, from overdose surge tracking to forecasting Narcan needs to match overdose levels. According to an earlier News Center Maine report, the summit comes as a new report issued by the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine shows drug overdoses for the first five months of this year are higher than in the same period last year.