In late June, when the New Hampshire Legislature passed its two-year budget, it imposed a roughly $51 million cut to the Department of Health and Human Services. This week, the department told the Executive Council it would reduce several of its contracts by millions of dollars. The “back-of-the-budget cut” mandated by the Legislature gave officials […]

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Substance abuse and mental illness have plagued us throughout history. Public attitudes and efforts to mitigate them have varied over the ages…