Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Brian Fitzpatrick (PA-01), the co-chairs of the Bipartisan Opioid Task Force, have introduced the Respond NOW Act to bolster the federal response to the opioid epidemic. The Respond NOW Act creates a $25 billion Opioid Epidemic Response Fund to provide $5 billion annually over five years targeted to numerous key activities involving such agencies as the Subst... Read more »
LEBANON, N.H. — New Hampshire Rep. Annie Kuster was in Lebanon Friday, visiting Headrest and Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center as part of her hospital and health care listening tour. Headrest helps those affected by substance use disorder with treatment and programs. Executive Director Cameron Ford said they received a grant through the Community Development Finance Authority. "For helping busine... Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) joined Representatives Brad Schneider (D-IL), Susan W. Brooks (R-IN), and Elise Stefanik (R-NY) to introduce the Opioid Workforce Act of 2019 (H.R. 2439), bipartisan legislation to train more doctors equipped to combat the opioid epidemic. The legislation would create 1,000 additional residency positions over five years to hospitals with addiction medicine... Read more »
(Concord, NH) - Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) visited Riverbend Community Mental Health, where she toured the facility and met with leadership and clinicians. This visit is part of Kuster’s listening tour of hospitals and healthcare centers in New Hampshire’s second congressional district, which she kicked off in February. As a member of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on He... Read more »
NASHUA – “We don’t say to people with diabetes, ‘We can’t treat you – you just ate cake.’ We say, ‘Wow, it’s really hard not to eat cake, but how can we help you and your family because you have a chronic disease that you should never have cake.” These are the words of U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-N.H., during her Tuesday stop at Nashua’s Revive Recovery Center. Kuster made a couple of stops in Nashu... Read more »
Four months into its creation, Concord’s hub-and-spoke substance use treatment system is picking up some steam. Walk-in patients to Riverbend Community Health – the capital area’s “hub” – are up and 41 patients have been referred to services so far, the organization says. But as New Hampshire officials continue to roll out the program and present it as a key asset in turning around the state’s opi... Read more »
Jake White is quick to point out that he’s no fan of politicians. The recovery coach at the Keene Serenity Center, which is now on Mechanic Street, said he’d assumed the congresswoman scheduled to visit Friday would just pay fly-by lip service to the addiction-treatment program. But within five minutes of sitting across from U.S. Rep. Ann M. Kuster in a circle of couches and chairs, he said he co... Read more »
(Keene, NH) – Today, Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02) visited the new Serenity recovery center location, where she met with staff and residents in recovery and toured the facility. Later, she toured Maps Counseling Services and met with clinicians. These visits are part of Kuster’s listening tour of health and recovery providers in New Hampshire’s second congressional district, which she kicked ... Read more »
U.S. Senators Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-LA), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), along with U.S. Representatives David Kustoff (R-TN) and Annie Kuster (D-NH), today reintroduced the Substance Tableting and Encapsulating Enforcement and Registration (STEER) Act, bipartisan, bicameral legislation to combat the opioid crisis by cracking down on counterfeit pill makers. The STEER Act allows the U.S. attorney genera... Read more »
Dear Friend, I wanted to share with you an op-ed in the Concord Monitor I wrote about the work I will be doing on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to increase access to affordable healthcare, lower the costs of prescription drugs, protect Granite State families from drinking water contamination, fight climate change, combat the opioid epidemic, improve our infrastructure, and hold agency of... Read more »
