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

Monday, September 29, 2025

“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. “

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

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Wednesday, November 8, 2023

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?

Another Saturday Night & they did have somebody

Monday, January 20, 2025Sunday, August 30, 2020

You know that old Cat Stevens song… Another Saturday night and I ain’t got nobody I got some money ’cause

You aren’t alone, no matter what your addiction or your mental illness tell you

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Thursday, May 28, 2020

Dear Hope Nation, This letter may be directed at the one person in the world who absolutely needs to read

Tech company to test out smartphone app connecting those released from NH jails with recovery services

Friday, May 1, 2020

The digital technology aims to improve long-term recovery from SUD, reduce relapse and recidivism rates, and support successful reentry and transition into the community for justice-involved individuals.

Where there is life, there is hope: Rethinking my notions on recovery

Tuesday, June 11, 2024Friday, August 31, 2018

Today, the addict faces not just opiates — chemicals derived from poppies — but opioids —synthetic and much more powerful versions of the drugs of days gone by.

DHHS seeks federal waiver and public comment on expanding substance use disorder services

Sunday, January 19, 2025Wednesday, February 28, 2018

As part of the process, the DHHS is soliciting public comment. A 30-day public comment period has begun and will continue through March 30, 2018. All comments must be received by 12 p.m. EST on March 30. DHHS will host two public hearings during the public comment period, including March 6 in Manchester.

Recent reports of recovery’s death in New Hampshire are greatly exaggerated

Sunday, January 19, 2025Monday, February 26, 2018

One thing is becoming clearer, though: Recovery is possible, to a person and for any community, if we commit to the track we’re on.

Safe Station 2017: A year of progress in an unwavering battle against addiction

Wednesday, January 3, 2018

2017 was a year of significant progress in reducing deaths and continuing to provide rapid single point access to people seeking recovery services. That progress was a direct result of many, many individuals and entities working tirelessly and without pause.

Recovery Community: No more agreeing to disagree

Monday, September 23, 2024Wednesday, January 3, 2018

I long for a day when the recovery community in New Hampshire and beyond can work together to agree on some simple interests. And yes, I said interests – not positions, stances, or opinions. We must get past all these if we are to work together in implementing solutions to the current crisis.

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