Police & Fire
3 arrested at Bridge Street residence after months-long drug investigation
Three people were arrested after police SWAT entered a residence on Bridge Street and confiscated drugs and cash. READ MORE
Heroin
Safe Station Update
Safe Station update: Current stats, and adding alcohol-related calls to the mix for 2018
Final stats for 2017 will be coming next week. For now, these numbers tell many different aspects of the full story of NH’s addiction crisis. READ MORE
Police & Fire
Police confiscate drugs, gun, after suspicious vehicle reported ‘casing’ Jewett Street
A caller told police he saw a vehicle driving slowly throughout the neighborhood prior to parking illegally, and he felt the individuals inside the vehicle may have been “casing” the neighborhood. READ MORE
Opinion
New Hampshire – and the country – has it all wrong
Just more funding, more stories, pointing fingers is not going to change or solve the addiction crisis. We need to change our soil. And I am directly calling on a leader to stand out in front of their citizens, and to specifically ask for that very thing to happen. Now. READ MORE
Forward Focus
Addiction effects everybody and it’s time to do something about it
We need to learn about the causes and the effects as well as thoughtfully and respectfully discuss what we have learned and come up with and initiate the solutions.
Opinion
I wasn’t an alcoholic – I just drank to stay sane
Before I got sober, I’d only gone without alcohol for more than seven days three times since I was 13. The first two “extended dry times” led me to attempt suicide and end up in psychiatric hospitals – the third included talking mice, fireworks and long conversations with princesses. Let me explain. READ MORE
Police & Fire
Two arrested for prowling/possession of heroin, crack cocaine
After questioning, both men were charged with prowling, for being parked behind a closed business at 1 a.m. The driver also faced drug charges. READ MORE
News
‘Disastrous week’ for ODs: ‘Something hit the streets that hit the users hard’
41 overdoses in the past week – the good news? No fatals. READ MORE
Police & Fire
Woman passed out behind wheel found with alcohol, heroin, sleeping child in backseat
A woman was arrested on various charges, including child endangerment, after police investigated a car parked at the Gulf Express and remained there for more than an hour. READ MORE
Government
NH AG files civil suit against Purdue Pharma for deceptive marketing of OxyContin
“New Hampshire continues to experience a severe opioid epidemic. Last year alone nearly 500 overdose deaths occurred — almost ten times more than in 2000. The CDC reports four out of five heroin users started with prescription opioids. To defeat the epidemic, we must stop creating new users and part of that is making sure these highly addictive and dangerous drugs are marketed truthfully and without deception and in such a way as not to minimize addiction risks or overstate benefits to patients.” READ MORE
