Years before he took over the Merrimack County Department of Corrections, Superintendent Ross Cunningham took a chance on another county’s correctional facility. Facing overcrowding, Sullivan County was contemplating building a new jail. Instead, Cunningham advocated for something else: funding for mental health and substance use treatment within the jail. The goal: Treat more people for substance... Read more »

Ann McLane Kuster, a Democrat, represents New Hampshire’s 2nd Congressional District in the House and is co-chair of the House Bipartisan Opioid Task Force. Cory Booker represents New Jersey in the U.S. Senate and is a Democratic candidate for president. As states across the country struggle to cobble together the resources to address the opioid epidemic, one thing is clear: The current system is... Read more »

Dear Friend, Combating Youth Substance Use On Monday, I joined Senator Shaheen, Senator Hassan and Congressman Chris Pappas at the Souhegan Valley Boys and Girls Club in Milford, where we sat down with the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) director Jim Carroll and students, school administrators and youth advocates to discuss youth substance use prevention. We must take every step pos... Read more »

U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), the lead Democrat of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that funds the Department of Justice, announced today with Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01), $664,673 in federal funds for New Hampshire through the Department of Justice’s Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) program. The first award ... Read more »

(Milford, NH) – U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today joined Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director Jim Carroll, as well as local students, school administrators, community leaders and youth advocates in a roundtable discussion at the Boys and Girls Club of Souhegan Valley in Milford on ... Read more »

U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Maggie Hassan (D-NH), and Representatives Annie Kuster (NH-02) and Chris Pappas (NH-01) today announced the award of $4,718,681 in federal grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to improve the treatment of opioid addiction through its Helping to End Addition Long-term (HEAL) Initiat... Read more »

Congresswoman Annie Kuster (D-NH) and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) introduced bipartisan legislation in the House today to ensure that the Drug Enforcement Administration has the authority to carry out needed enforcement actions for drug diversion control investigations. The Restoring Enforcement Standards to Track Opioids Responsively and Effectively (RESTORE) Act of 2019 would repeal ex... Read more »

Dear Friend, After a productive week in Washington I am looking forward to heading back to the Granite State! Take a look at what I have been up to this week. Combating PFAS Contamination I spoke on the House floor this week to urge Congress to address PFAS proliferation in the National Defense Authorization Act of 2020 (NDAA). On Thursday, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment... Read more »

A new bill in the U.S. House could provide $63 billion for substance abuse treatment. Rep. Annie Kuster, D-New Hampshire, introduced the Turn the Tide Act on Tuesday. The bill would provide flexible funding over 10 years to support long-term efforts in the fight against the opioid crisis nationwide. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-New Hampshire, has already introduced the bill in the Senate. “The opioid an... Read more »

**Legislation would increase availability of treatment for substance use disorder** **The Turn the Tide Act would provide $63 billion in funding over ten years** Today Congresswoman Annie Kuster (NH-02), the founder and co-chair of the Bipartisan Opioid Task Force, introduced the Turn the Tide Act in the House of Representatives. This legislation would provide $63 billion in flexible funding over ... Read more »