Opioid Crisis Takes Toll in Maine Lobster Industry
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [CBS Interactive] BY Kenneth Craig - August 28, 2017
MACHIASPORT, Maine -- The nation's opioid crisis has hit hard in Maine, where at least one person died every day last year of drug overdoses.
It's also penetrated the state's lobster industry. Some fishermen are suffering in silence in a community that rarely asks for help.
Josh Kane has spent more than 15 years fishing off the coast of Maine. For 10 of those years, he struggled with an opioid addiction as his fellow lobstermen looked the other way.
"It's one of those things that's kind of like, 'Don't ask, don't tell,'" Kane said. "As long as you show up every ...
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