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By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

If New Hampshire chooses to legalize recreational marijuana, the focal point should be redirecting revenue from marijuana sales toward public health and social justice programs, mental health and public policy advocates said.“What we have to...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Riverbend Community Mental Health is set to open a 12-bed facility in Concord, providing much-needed housing and on-site care for adults dealing with acute mental health challenges.Located at 278 Pleasant Street, the facility will offer 24/7 staffing,...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

People in wheelchairs, others relying on crutches, some facing terminal illness and some caregivers packed a hearing Wednesday for a bill that would allow medically assisted dying in New Hampshire.While most of the attendees expressed support for...

WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — The Vermont Department of Mental Health is seeking input into the idea of implementing the Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics model in Vermont. The clinics provide holistic care for people of all ages and aim to...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The suspect and one victim are dead following a shooting Friday afternoon at New Hampshire Hospital, the state psychiatric facility on Clinton Street in Concord, authorities said.An emergency call about an active shooter came in at 3:38 p.m.,...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College released a new strategic plan for mental health and well-being this week.The plan’s release follows President Sian Leah Beilock’s inaugural address last month in which she pledged to prioritize the issue.It outlines steps...

LEBANON — West Central Behavioral Health has hired an interim chief executive, according to a Monday news release.Alexander J. Horvath will serve as interim president and CEO while the Lebanon-based community based mental health center conducts a...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Mental health is personal.When U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy asked the 1,000 people gathered in Dartmouth College’s Leede Arena on Thursday afternoon for a conversation on the “Future of Mental Health and Wellness” how many know someone...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Students who are seniors now at Dartmouth College began their matriculation in the fall of 2020, amid strict COVID-19 protocols.Few of the college’s typical welcome traditions took place. Fall First-Year Trips were canceled, gatherings were...

By MICHAELA TOWFIGHI

Gavin Dubois sometimes doesn’t have the words to express how he feels. But when he picks up a pair of drumsticks, he can read his emotions as clearly as notes on a sheet of music. Amid the sounds of the snare, the melodies of his marimba, his rage...

LEBANON — The Lebanon City Council last week unanimously granted its support to two grant applications that could yield as much as $1 million for a nonprofit aiming to establish a residential addiction treatment facility for mothers and their children...

LYME — CommunityCare of Lyme is scheduled to host a community discussion of mental health and suicide on Sunday in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month.The event speakers include: Angie Raymond Leduc, manager of the Injury Prevention Center...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Alison Palmer thought she had motherhood figured out after her first pregnancy.Her son Matt was a dream baby. He followed a predictable feeding schedule and slept on schedule like clockwork. But with her second son Ryan, it was completely different....

SPRINGFIELD, Vt. — Health Care and Rehabilitation Services of Southeastern Vermont, a nonprofit community mental health agency which provides support to people in Windsor and Windham counties, has services available for those who are struggling with...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

LEBANON — The New Hampshire Executive Council on Wednesday approved a $1 million contract for five new involuntary psych beds at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, according to a news release from the New Hampshire Department of Health and...

RANDOLPH — Clara Martin Center has announced a new peer support program.Through the program, developed as part of the Orange County mental health agency’s Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinic expansion of services, people with their own lived...

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Just a fraction of the state’s police officers have completed training that is considered the “gold standard” for law enforcement to better respond to mental health emergency calls.About 16% of all 2,900 sworn police officers in New Hampshire have...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

NEWPORT — Former New Hampshire Supreme Court Chief Justice John Broderick Jr. has spent the past several years speaking with students throughout northern New England to help bring awareness to the warning signs of mental illness in an effort to...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

SOUTH ROYALTON — HealthHub now has funds and equipment sufficient to double the dental care it was providing to school children in the White River Valley last year, but instead it has reduced the amount of care it is providing to just 20% of what it...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — At the end of the second week of fall term classes, roughly 500 members of the Dartmouth College community gathered the evening of Sept. 23 in front of Baker-Berry Library to listen to the college’s president, chaplain and student leaders...

By NORA DOYLE-BURR

HANOVER — Dartmouth College officials on Friday said they are rolling back some COVID-19 restrictions in dorms to allow students more opportunities to socialize with each other following the third unexpected death this school year of a member of the...