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The New Hampshire Medical Society and ACLU say the state should continue to fight a federal law enforcement request for access to the state’s prescription…
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The New Hampshire Attorney General’s office is blocking a request by federal law enforcement agents to turn over drug prescribing information collected by…
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A recent study found that New Hampshire reduced opioid prescriptions by 15% last year, the largest drop in the country. How have physicians changed how…
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A new audit by the state shows New Hampshire’s Prescription Drug Monitoring Program isn’t performing well.The 226-page report released Friday says the…
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In the past year, the number of narcotic painkillers prescribed in New Hampshire decreased by more than 13 percent, while cases of suspected “doctor…
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State lawmakers, doctors, and others in the medical profession have been hammering out new guidelines for prescribing these drugs to tackle the issue of…
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The manager for New Hampshire’s prescription drug monitoring program told lawmakers Tuesday that more funding would help the system to better handle an…
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Approved by a special legislative session, a newly minted task force will spend the next weeks considering several options for tackling the state’s drug…
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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…