Agenda for 4/25

1. So what happens to Todd? 

2. Maine's Heroin Crisis

3. Keynote - Drug Use in America - view slides 12-16

4. Oxycontin: Purdue Pharma's Painful Medicine

5. Doctor convicted of Murder for overdose deaths

6. How many users/dealers are arrested?

7. Opiate Addiction Treatment Options

- Research the basic info about your groups assigned treatment option

- How does it work? 
- Does it work (how effective)?
- Reasons for controversy? Pros/Cons?
- How widely utilized in the United States (or Maine)?
- What is the cost?

- Create a shared Google Doc to record your group's research.
- Have research completed for next class.

Group A. Abstinence Programs and Support Groups (Narcotics Anonymous)
Group B. Methadone
Group C. Suboxone
Group D. Needle Exchanges
Group E. Vancouver's Supervised Injection Site and proposed for Ithaca, NY