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Maine Monitor reporters Emily Bader, left, and Rose Lundy, right. |
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From the reporter’s desk
Good morning,
We are making a couple changes to our Health Monitor newsletter starting this week.
First, it will now come to your inbox every other Friday morning, rather than on Thursdays. You may also see new features, including reporter notes, interviews and data projects as we use this space to bring you more insights.
I’m excited to add that reporter Emily Bader will be joining me to write stories for this newsletter that dig into health care and health policy in Maine.
If you don’t know Emily, she is a health care and general assignment reporter for The Maine Monitor. She has written a lot about Maine’s opioid settlement funds, addiction treatment and mental health care. She’s also done some reporting this year on Maine’s new red flag law, which allows families to ask a judge to temporarily take weapons away from a person at risk of harm.
As always, we want to hear from you about any issues you think are important and undercovered on the health beat. Send your thoughts our way: rose@themainemonitor.org and emily@themainemonitor.org.
— Rose |
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Have you read this story by Lana Cohen about plans for a public boarding school for high schoolers in recovery in Fort Kent? The Upper St. John Valley Recovery High School will be the first recovery high school in Maine, the only one operating in a rural area and the first with a boarding component in about 30 years.
Slated to start in August, the school for high schoolers who have struggled with a substance use disorder will have room for 14 students at a time. It will expect students to remain in the program for between 90 days and a full school year. Students will enroll voluntarily, with approval from a parent or guardian.
“Addiction doesn’t mean a student stops being a learner,” said Tammy Lothrop, who has worked as a school social worker in Aroostook County for 25 years. “When we separate the two, students fall behind academically, fall behind their peers, which leads to more shame. For the first time, we’re not asking students to choose between recovery and education.” |
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