Addiction Drug’s Side Effect: More Overdoses?

Researchers suggest people getting Vivitrol shots may be more susceptible to a fatal overdose if they halt the regimen early and resume using opiates.

New Hampshire PBS launches new PBS KIDS 24/7 Channel

DURHAM – The nation’s most trusted provider of educational media for children has launched the first-ever national 24/7 PBS KIDS channel.  Up until now, NHPBS has been providing the channel as a cable-only offering. This spring, it launched the service on transmitters across the Granite State.

Polaris to Pay Record $27.25M Penalty Over OHRV Fire Risks

 Polaris Industries has agreed to pay $27.25 million – a record penalty – to settle charges that it failed to immediately notify federal officials about a fire hazard on its recreational off-highway vehicles that regulators have linked to at least one death and more than 180 fires.

Subsidy Season at State House For Wood-Burning Plants?

Nine hundred good jobs are at stake, co-sponsors told the House Committee on Science, Technology and Energy Committee last Wednesday at the hearing on Senate Bill 446.  Representative Herb Richardson (R- Lancaster) thinks the total is more like 1,500.

Week To Watch: Medicaid Expansion, Recovery Workplace, Death Penalty, More

Lots happening for lawmakers and you coming this week including a public hearing on Senate Bill 593, which would end the state’s death penalty replacing it with life without parole, which passed the Senate but Sununu said he will veto it. The hearing is in Room 204 of the Legislative Office Building at 10 a.m. on Wednesday.