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`Police agencies report over 500 saves using
`Narcan provided by Attorney General's
`Office
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`August 1, 2018
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`(AUGUSTA) Maine Attorney General Janet T. Mills has announced that police agencies receiving
`Narcan, the opioid overdose reversing drug, have utilized it 504 times since the Attorney
`General's Office began making it available at no cost to the agencies. The first doses of Narcan
`were delivered in June 2016 and has been provided to 84 agencies across Maine.
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`"This is another grim milestone in our state's fight against opioids," said Attorney General Mills.
`"While it is critical that we turn the tide against the ever-rising number of overdose deaths, we
`can and should be doing more to prevent and treat substance use disorder in Maine. I proposed a
`ten-point plan in January to address Maine's opiate epidemic. Some recent actions have been
`taken by the Legislature to address the issue, like funding a hub and spoke treatment model, but
`we must do more."
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`Attorney General Mills has been providing Narcan, also known by the generic term Naloxone, to
`law enforcement agencies using funds made available through settlements with pharmaceutical
`manufacturers. Attorney General Mills, as the State's chief law enforcement officer, is
`empowered to provide the doses to other law enforcement agencies. When agreeing to accept the
`Narcan from the Attorney General's Office, law enforcement agencies must certify that their
`officers are trained to administer it. The agencies are also asked to report back when they
`successfully use the doses, but this figure does not reflect all of the Narcan administered in the
`state.
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`"Seconds count when an officer arrives on an overdose scene and there is no reason a person
`should die because a responding officer did not have this simple tool available," said Attorney
`General Mills. "Now we need to supplement these emergency measures with medication assisted
`treatment and with recovery coaches available at emergency rooms so we can help people turn
`their lives around."
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`12/15/2019
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`Office of the Maine AG: News & Reports
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`https://www.maine.gov/ag/news/article.shtml?id=804407
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`Opiant Exhibit 2153
`Nalox-1 Pharmaceuticals, LLC v. Opiant Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
`IPR2019-00694
`Page 2
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