Sun journal archive#

Last year, an estimated 632 Maine people died from fatal drug overdoses, the deadliest year on record, representing a 23% jump in deaths over 2020. Between 1997 and September of last year, 2,359 Mainers have died from a pharmaceutical opioid-related overdose. Lewiston Daily Evening Journal Lewiston Daily Sun Lewiston Evening Journal Lewiston Falls Journal Lewiston Journal Lewiston Sun Journal Sun-Journal. The report found that in 1997, a year after Purdue introduced Oxењњontin, 16 Mainers died from pharmaceutical opioid-related overdoses, while fewer than 10 people died from opioid-related overdoses every year during the decade prior. The Sun Journal analyzed annual confirmed drug death counts, from 1997 through September of 2021, using data from drug death reports from the Rural Drug and Alcohol Research Program at the University of Maine Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center and the Office of the Maine Attorney General, as well as data supplied by Marcella Sorg, research professor at the Department of Anthropology, Climate Change Institute and Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center. UVB light from the sun strikes the skin, and humans synthesize vitamin D 3, so it is the.

Sun journal archive#

Use the archive to gain a local perspective on historical news, to research your family history, or to simply read about a person or event of interest. Vitamin D 2 is obtained from the UV irradiation of the yeast sterol ergosterol and is found naturally in sun-exposed mushrooms. Every newspaper in the database is fully searchable by keyword and date, making it easy to quickly explore historical content. The Sun Journal featured University of Maine data in a sweeping report about opioid drug deaths in Maine. Vitamin D is unique because it can be made in the skin from exposure to sunlight.