Week of April 17, 2017

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CORINTH, MAINE -- 05/01/2015 - Roger Meserve, 36, of Corinth takes a dose of Suboxone after waking up Friday at his home in Corinth. Meserve started taking drugs when he was eight years old. "It filled a hole that needed to be filled," he said. At age 17 he started using heroin. By 2005 he was up to 50 bags a day of heroin. That's when he decided to get clean. For four years he was on liquid methadone and made the switch to Suboxone after not liking the effects of methadone, first from the streets, then getting a legitimate prescription in 2013 from the Discovery House in Bangor. Meserve said that if the governor cut funding for methadone, that many addicts would suffer. "I know people on methadone and it's the right drug for them, it saved their lives, " said Messerve. Ashley L. Conti | BDN