Addiction Experts Criticize NH Legislative Efforts to Decriminalize or

Addiction experts criticize NH legislative efforts to decriminalize or
New Hampshire consistently ranks among the states with the highest rate of substance abuse in the country while also having among the lowest rates of access to treatment, according to Tym Rourke, the NHCF's director of program development. What is …
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Fact and fiction about Maine's drug-affected babies
Much of the focus of recent coverage is related to Maine's troubling opioid abuse rate, the highest in the nation. Opioids include prescription narcotic painkillers as well as heroin and its relatives. We can solve this public health problem if we come …
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US state battling drug addiction crisis — The death of American actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has once again drawn attention to drug addiction in the US. One of the smallest states is struggling to co…


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