New England Editorial Roundup

New England editorial roundup
Paul LePage, who focused on the issue in a recent radio address, says the statistics are frightening, and we agree. Any efforts to address the problem, however, will be undercut by a recent two-year state cap on Medicaid coverage of addiction treatment … Read more on Sacramento Bee

AG announces new state heroin unit
Earlier this year, DeWine tasked employees to find some hard statistics relating to heroin consumption over the years. What they found was that heroin overdose deaths jumped 34 percent between 2010 and 2011 … Dedicated drug abuse awareness … Read more on Parkersburg News

Caffeine and creatine: legalizing drug use could even baseball's playing field
It wasn't until Congress launched an investigation, chaired by former Senator and Bowdoin alum George Mitchell '54, that MLB admitted it had a significant drug problem. In late 2007, the … But these measures have done little to reduce the high number … Read more on The Bowdoin Orient