‘Choices’ Program Aims to Help Teens Overcome Addiction Early in Lives
NHPR Wednesday, January 4, 2017 By RICK GANLEY & MICHAEL BRINDLEY A new treatment program for adolescents battling drug and alcohol addiction opens in Concord Wednesday. The program is called Choices, and
New treatment programs focus on underserved populations
By ELLA NILSEN Monitor staff Tuesday, January 03, 2017 As state health officials scramble to help open more drug and alcohol treatment programs and sober houses, certain segments
UNH and New Futures Develop Guide to Accessing Addiction and Mental Health Services
DURHAM, N.H. – Recognizing there is a growing need to educate consumers with health insurance coverage in New Hampshire about how to navigate addiction and mental health care
By the numbers: Concord High shifts focus on drug and alcohol education
By ELLA NILSEN, Monitor Staff Published Concord Monitor 5/08/2016 Anti-drug and alcohol presentations today don’t look like the ones shown to high school students 10 to 20 years ago. Think
My Turn: A pivotal moment in opioid crisis
By JEFFREY A. MEYERS, commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services Published Concord Monitor 5/04/2016 The scope of the opioid epidemic in New Hampshire is
Effort underway in NH to help families of drug overdose victims
By Ray Brewer, WMUR Friday, August 7, 2015 (Published on WMUR Friday, August 7, 2015) CONCORD, N.H. —Losing a loved one is tough, but according to experts, those
My Turn: Addiction, mental illness are our common enemy
By PETER EVERS For the Concord Monitor Sunday, June 14, 2015 (Published in print: Sunday, June 14, 2015) The times that we live in suggest that political voices