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Board of Medicine Adopts New Opioid Prescription StandardsThe New Hampshire Board of Medicine has established new standards for physicians when prescribing opioids to patients in the state.WMUR-TV reports…
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We're checking in on the state's response to the ongoing opioid epidemic.GUESTS:Dean Lemire, Regional Substance Misuse Prevention CoordinatorTym Rourke,…
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For years, Chris Clough prescribed more pain medication than almost anyone else in New Hampshire.Along the way, state regulators say, he broke nearly…
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One patient received opioids from 64 prescribers across three states. Another received thousands of painkillers from 11 different prescribers. In a third…
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New Hampshire officials call it a public health epidemic: record numbers of Granite Staters are overdosing and dying because of opioid drugs, especially…
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New Hampshire doctors are among the nation’s most prolific prescribers of Oxycontin and other opioids, according to a government report released Tuesday…
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The Executive Council has picked an Alabama company to begin collecting data that will help physicians and pharmacists identify patients who may be…
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The FDA has approved this drug, but across New England there’s worry that the drug will only add fuel to the fire of the region’s opiate addiction…
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In 2009, 120 infants exhibited symptoms of Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome (NAS), more than double the number of cases from five years prior. NAS is caused…
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Police in Manchester are dealing with the effects of a rising rate of prescription drug abuse. But it's not the only part of New Hampshire seeing the…