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Coverage of the healthcare and mental healthcare industries.
Death with dignity allows the terminally ill to once again claim control of their lives, or will encourage those on the emotional edge into suicide, a Senate committee was told Wednesday.
David Meehan’s severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is one of the worst cases Dr. Terry Allen Kupers ever encountered in his long career treating victims of child abuse, and it all stems from his years of being raped, beaten, and tortured by staff at the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC in Manchester.
With police, fire and prison security recruitment issues continually facing the state and vacancy rates as high as 20 percent, Group II retirement benefits for state employees was before the Senate Finance Committee Tuesday where the issue died last year.
David Meehan has already spent days on the witness stand delving into what happened to him at the Sununu Youth Services Center – also known as YDC – the brutal rapes, the months of isolation, and the crippling mental and physical toll he’s lived with since.
A school parental notification bill and one that would separate high school and college athletic teams by biological gender at birth received lengthy hearings in the House Education Committee Monday with opponents far outnumbering supporters.
David Meehan bought a gun, clothing, and heroin in preparation to murder Jeff Buskey, the man Meehan says raped and brutalized him as a boy sentenced to the Sununu Youth Services Center, then called YDC, in the 1990s.
The state Department of Health and Human Services hopes to help transform the community mental health centers through a federal demonstration program.
The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Division of Public Health Services (DPHS) is advising consumers not to eat Infinite Herbs Organic Fresh Basil packed in 2.5-oz clamshells and sold at Traders Joe’s stores. There is a multistate outbreak of Salmonella infections linked to this brand of basil.
The man leading the fight to hold the state of New Hampshire accountable for decades of horrific sexual and physical abuse and coverup, David Meehan began telling his story to jurors Wednesday, speaking haltingly and fighting through the emotional scars forced on him.