New Hampshire Hospitals To Invest $50 Million To Support State-Funded Addiction Treatment Over 5 Years

On April 6, 2018, New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu announced an agreement with the state’s 26 hospitals that will result in the hospitals investing $50 million into the state’s Alcohol Abuse Prevention and Treatment Fund (Alcohol Fund) that the state uses to pay for non-Medicaid prevention, treatment and recovery programs for addiction disorders. The hospitals agreed to contribute the $50 million over five years. The Governor's Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Treatment and Recovery, which administers the Alcohol Fund, will identify how to use the new funding.

The legislature created the Alcohol Fund in . . .