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		<title>Gov. Hogan Proposes $4million Drug Abuse Program, New Treatment Clinic Opens in Cecil County; Trump Health Plan Changes Could Limit Coverage</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2017 00:55:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan proposed an anti-drug initiative Tuesday 1/24/2017 that would boost spending by $4 million on treatment and monitoring programs, along with tougher laws aimed at drug traffickers and over-prescribing of opioids by physicians. At the same time, a new out-patient detox and treatment center held a ribbon-cutting ceremony in conjunction with Union Hospital in Elkton. But looming over the state and local anti-drug abuse efforts are the uncertainties over the fate of the Affordable Care Act (“Obamacare”) and its mandates to provide health insurance coverage for drug addiction treatment services, as the new President Donald Trump moves forward with his plan to repeal “Obamacare” and replace it with an as yet unknown alternative. Some new drug treatment programs, such as the profit-making Recovery Centers of America facility in Earleville in southern Cecil County, included as a key part of their business plan the availability of drug treatment coverage under mandates of the Affordable Care Act for insurance companies. Without such assurances, the fiscal viability of some local treatment programs could be uncertain. In addition, a key feature of the Affordable Care Act was its expansion of Medicaid to bring health coverage to a larger number of people, [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Cecil County Sheriff Sees &#8220;Scary&#8221; Trend of Heroin Laced with other Drugs; Progress Against Drug Epidemic Hard to Track</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Schwerzler]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wearing a mourning band around his Sheriff’s badge to honor the sadly growing roster of recently murdered law enforcement officers across the nation, Cecil County Sheriff Scott Adams warned the Cecil County Council on Tuesday that despite gains in preventing fatal overdoses and heightened enforcement efforts against drug traffickers, there are “scary” trends in the illegal drug world that could worsen the drug abuse problem in the county. Compounding the problem has been a time-lag in “trend” and “threat assessment” information from federal agencies, such as the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), that makes data available long after police on the streets are seeing quickly shifting patterns in illegal drugs sold by dealers. “The trends change so quickly,” Adams said, and a growing threat is fentanyl—a powerful opioid and anesthetic that dealers are mixing with heroin&#8211;that had previously bypassed Cecil County. But in 2015, there were 7 fentanyl drug deaths in Cecil County—a sharp increase from the 1 death recorded in 2014 and zero deaths in the county due to fentanyl in 2013. So far this year, there has already been 1 fentanyl-related death in Cecil County during the first four months of the year, according to new state health data [&#8230;]]]></description>
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		<title>Rep. Harris Condemns Legal Pot, Challenges Medical Merits; Backpedals on Pushing Charges Against DC Mayor on Legalization</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2015 20:33:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[US Rep. Andy Harris (R-1) brought his anti-marijuana campaign to Cecil County this week, challenging the medicinal merits of pot for seriously ill patients and calling the state’s new medical marijuana program a stalking-horse for full legalization for recreational use. And while condemning the recent implementation of a voter referendum to legalize marijuana in Washington, DC, he backpedaled from earlier demands for criminal prosecution of the DC mayor for her role in the process. Harris requested the 3/9/15 meeting in Elkton with the Cecil County Council, County Executive Tari Moore and county Health Officer Stephanie Garrity that was called to discuss anti-drug initiatives in Washington and locally. Garrity gave Harris a run-down, with charts, of local efforts to prevent drug abuse and help addicts with treatment and recovery programs. For his part, Harris, who is a physician, expounded on his views against medical marijuana and recent moves in several states and the District of Columbia to legalize pot for recreational use. He also dismissed the merits of a newly revised Maryland law that decriminalizes, but does not legalize, possession of small quantities of pot for personal use. And he questioned the validity of Maryland’s newly established process of establishing a [&#8230;]]]></description>
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