NASHUA — Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Tuesday if elected he would take from the FBI and give to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) the lead role in a federal crackdown against illegal fentanyl use in America.
CONCORD — Karen Prive of Franklin said she had suicidal thoughts since she was age 6 and it took a network of volunteers and first responders to help her silence the voices and even inanimate objects that urged she kill herself.
An executive councilor is calling for more transparency on out-of-state placements for troubled juveniles after New Hampshire officials pulled two boys out of a Tennessee facility that New Hampshire’s child advocate said “operates on a culture of fear and intimidation.”
CONCORD — Gov. Chris Sununu and top state officials broke ground Thursday on a landmark project — building a more humane residence for the mentally ill considered too dangerous to stay at New Hampshire Hospital (NHH) in Concord.
The former resident of a Manchester homeless shelter who shot and killed a fellow resident will spend the next five years in a psychiatric facility, authorities said.
A judge has ordered that Akwasi Owusu, the young man found not guilty by reason of insanity in the 2020 stabbing of three Manchester cops, be released from the state prison psychiatric facility.
WASHINGTON — Permanently placing all fentanyl analogs on the federal drug schedule would help law enforcement deal with growing opioid deaths in New Hampshire, according to Rep. Chris Pappas, D-N.H.
The state has a 12-month deadline to end the controversial practice of boarding people having a psychiatric crisis in hospital emergency rooms, a federal judge has ruled.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is taking the lead on bipartisan legislation to strengthen penalties against illegal drug dealers and to especially target the international sales of fentanyl through the dark web.
A 14-year-old student at Southside Middle School in Manchester died after jumping from the Huse Road overpass onto Interstate 293 on Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple sources who did not want to be named.
CONCORD — The Executive Council distributed $6.5 million in grants for nonprofits and counties to battle substance abuse Wednesday, the first ones to come from settlements that drug makers and sellers have reached after the state sued them over the opioid epidemic.
CONCORD — Granite United Way of Manchester will operate a 24-hour hotline for the homeless through a contract the Executive Council approved Wednesday.
CONCORD — A patient at the state Secure Psychiatric Unit, a facility for chronically dangerous psychiatric patients, has died unexpectedly, state corrections officials said.
At least 480 New Hampshire residents were lost last year to drug overdoses — the highest number since 2017.
The state Department of Health and Human Services wants to distribute more than 700 overdose emergency kits to public locations in all 10 New Hampshire counties.
CONCORD — New Hampshire is seeing a growing number of overdose deaths linked to xylazine, a Narcan-resistant drug that is being “cut” with fentanyl, according to state law enforcement and human services officials.
CONCORD — Melissa Lebrun of Seabrook told first responders that her son three months ago had a fentanyl overdose after taking from a friend what he thought was a Percocet pill for pain.
Manchester city officials acted quickly last week after business owners showed up at City Hall to complain about the tent city outside the Families in Transition shelter.
A woman who died in a sidewalk tent on Christmas Eve outside a Manchester homeless shelter had recently been released from a New Hampshire jail with high hopes for her success.
Social media companies should be required to reveal to law enforcement the abuse of their platforms to engage in the illegal sale of fentanyl, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen said Monday.
What is the relationship between crime and mental illness?
New Hampshire struggles with how to address mentally ill people who commit crimes and enter overburdened systems that can work at cross purposes.
Lawyers on both sides of the Valley Cemetery rape case have filed papers that sum up the 1 1/2-day trial that took place earlier this week, leaving the future of suspect Amuri Diole in the hands of a judge.
CONCORD — New Hampshire ranked second in the country for child well-being, but only one state had a higher percentage of children who suffered from anxiety or depression, according to the annual KIDS Count Data Book report.
CONCORD — Changing how to deliver life-saving Naloxone played a big part in New Hampshire being the only state in the nation with a decline in drug overdose deaths since 2017, according to the state’s chief medical officer.
CONCORD — Changing how to deliver life-saving Naloxone played a big part in New Hampshire being the only state in the nation with a decline in drug overdose deaths since 2017, according to the state’s chief medical officer.
Former patients of Serenity Place, the defunct Manchester-based drug-and-alcohol treatment center, have until Oct. 1 to obtain a copy of their records, Attorney General John Formella announced.
HAMPSTEAD — State officials are seeking approval of a one-time, $139,131 check to offset the Town of Hampstead’s loss in property taxes from the state’s purchase of privately owned Hampstead Hospital.
CONCORD — A new state-run support program should reduce the number of patients who need readmission to a psychiatric hospital setting, according to state officials.
CONCORD — The state is facing an increased volume of deadly fentanyl sold on the street and mixed with drugs ranging from anti-anxiety and pain medications to bodybuilding supplements, Gov. Chris Sununu warned Thursday.
While the competency of alleged Valley Cemetery rapist Amuri Diole remains undecided, lawyers for the prosecutor, the defense and the Union Leader Corp. sparred Monday over how much the public will get to know about Diole’s psychiatric state.
The alleged Valley Cemetery rapist appeared in Hillsborough County Superior Court on Thursday, hoping a judge will find him mentally incompetent to stand trail in the attack last spring at the Manchester cemetery.
One out of four New Hampshire residents in a recent health survey reported using prescription medication for their mental or emotional health in the prior month.
Nine formerly homeless people graduated Thursday from the fourth session of Granite Leaders, a program designed to boost the skills of advocacy and community engagement of marginalized people.
In a Manchester park, not far from downtown restaurants and shops, evidence of drug use is in plain sight.
For years, Kayla West watched the opioid epidemic tear through her eastern Tennessee community. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, she treated people with mental illness but felt she needed to do more to address addiction.
NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — A Seacoast volunteer organization has spent the past six years offering hope to more than 80 people seeking recovery from addiction and it isn't planning on backing down.
An affordable antidote for opioid overdoses has become more difficult to obtain amid a fatal epidemic, in what advocates have called a "perfect storm" with deadly consequences.
CONCORD — The Sununu administration is asking federal authorities for a waiver to permit those on Medicaid with severe mental illness to be covered for short-term residential treatment.
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The state has a 12-month deadline to end the controversial practice of boarding people having a psychiatric crisis in hospital emergency rooms, a federal judge has ruled.
WASHINGTON — Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., is taking the lead on bipartisan legislation to strengthen penalties against illegal drug dealers and to especially target the international sales of fentanyl through the dark web.
A 14-year-old student at Southside Middle School in Manchester died after jumping from the Huse Road overpass onto Interstate 293 on Wednesday afternoon, according to multiple sources who did not want to be named.
CONCORD — The Executive Council distributed $6.5 million in grants for nonprofits and counties to battle substance abuse Wednesday, the first ones to come from settlements that drug makers and sellers have reached after the state sued them over the opioid epidemic.
CONCORD — Granite United Way of Manchester will operate a 24-hour hotline for the homeless through a contract the Executive Council approved Wednesday.
CONCORD — A patient at the state Secure Psychiatric Unit, a facility for chronically dangerous psychiatric patients, has died unexpectedly, state corrections officials said.
At least 480 New Hampshire residents were lost last year to drug overdoses — the highest number since 2017.
