Addiction

Senator Hassan meets with addiction care providers to discuss the reauthorized Support Act

read more…: Senator Hassan meets with addiction care providers to discuss the reauthorized Support Act

“I think the thing that is most encouraging to me overall over the trajectory of the opioid epidemic is just that we have begun to see it as a challenge that we all need to address together. And we’ve begun to understand that it’s not a character failing, that it’s an illness that can be treated, that we can learn more and more about it, and learn about what works and use evidence to address the problem and make sure that we’re reducing deaths and preventing addiction to begin with. “

NH to receive $4.5M as part of $720M national opioid settlements from 8 drug makers

read more…: NH to receive $4.5M as part of $720M national opioid settlements from 8 drug makers

Today’s announcement is in addition to the settlement the New Hampshire Attorney General’s Office announced back in June with Purdue Pharma and its owners, the Sackler family in which New Hampshire stands to receive as much as $30 million from that settlement over the next 10 years. To date, the Granite State has already received more than $97.4 million in opioid settlement funds from either settlement agreements or bankruptcy courts orders with

The Soapbox: Do your research + check your facts before rushing to judgement on needle exchange

read more…: The Soapbox: Do your research + check your facts before rushing to judgement on needle exchange

For way too long these proven programs have had to hide in the shadows, due to general ignorance about their successes in maintaining a healthy community, and to the general stigma surrounding drugs which are consumed with needles (rather than just smoking or drinking).

SIM Workshop takeaway: Solutions needed for housing those in court system with mental illness, addiction

read more…: SIM Workshop takeaway: Solutions needed for housing those in court system with mental illness, addiction

The New Hampshire Judicial Branch on March 27 released a comprehensive report produced as a result of the recent Sequential Intercept Mapping or SIM workshop that took place at Elliot Hospital in Manchester, focusing on the Hillsborough County North region.

A tale of two bus rides, two hospitals and the upside of ‘ifs’

read more…: A tale of two bus rides, two hospitals and the upside of ‘ifs’

It’s seven a.m., November 8, 2023. Soon, I’ll board a bus to Boston to take the T and a bus to West Roxbury. There, I’ll walk into the VA hospital to be chemically knocked out. A surgical team will put an instrument down my throat. That mechanism will, I believe, snip off tiny bits of the nodule in my lung and, perhaps, a sample of nearby lymph nodes. These pieces of me—and how strange to think of a cancer as part of ME—will be sent off to mystics and sorcerers in the mountains—sorry, I mean pathologists in a lab. They’ll read my entrails and divine my future. What a funny world, huh?

Larissa, a Fairy Tale of Sorts – Part 1: Too smart and charming for our own good

read more…: Larissa, a Fairy Tale of Sorts – Part 1: Too smart and charming for our own good

Larissa will find another job. She’s insightful and gifted and attractive, and that’s what her references will say. They won’t say she’s a drunk. They won’t want to damage her opportunities because “She’s so great when she’s not drinking. If it weren’t for that . . .” Unfortunately, those ellipses never end without change, and that change doesn’t seem to come without work on our part.

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