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Coverage of the healthcare and mental healthcare industries.
The most dramatic increases in opioid deaths were in the rural Midwest where they were 16 times higher in 2016 than in 1999 and in the rural Northeast where they were 11.4 times higher.
Nancy Heath of Milan is fighting to keep legal guardianship of her adult son, Anthony Heath, who has been locked up for about two years in the Secure Psychiatric Unit at the men’s prison in Concord after being found not competent to stand trial.
OPINION: Our state made a difference for local residents.
The meeting came only days before the executive committee of the Coakley Landfill Group meets in Portsmouth on June 7th, the first such meeting open to the public, and only weeks before an EPA Region 1 Summit on the agency’s strategic plan to address PFAS on June 25th-26th at the Pease Tradeport in Portsmouth.
CONCORD – The mood among lawmakers has changed dramatically over the last three years that InDepthNH.org has been investigating the state’s decades-long practice of locking up mentally ill people in the prison’s Secure Psychiatric Unit even if they haven’t been convicted of a crime.
The move comes two weeks after ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle reported on pervasive problems in the historic heart program.
For more information on the Recovery Hub, please visit nhrecoveryhub.org. If you or someone you know is experiencing an addiction-related crisis, call the NH Statewide Addiction Crisis Line at: 1.844.711.4357 (HELP).
This new service uses live, two-way secure video on large format, high-definition mobile carts to connect D-H providers with CCFHS patients and local medical care teams. Initially, the service will provide access to Endocrinology services for adults. Additional specialty services for both children and adults will be added in the coming months.
But out of public view, Dr. O.H. Bud Frazier has been accused of violating federal research rules and skirting ethical guidelines, putting his quest to make medical history ahead of the needs of some patients, an investigation by ProPublica and the Houston Chronicle has found.