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| https://shea-porter.house.gov/media/press-releases/shea-porter-statement-rise-new-hampshire-drug-overdose-death-rate | Shea-Porter Statement on Rise in New Hampshire Drug Overdose Death Rate | 2017-12-21 | 2017 | 2017-12 | Democrat | House | NH | Carol Shea-Porter | S001170 | shea-porter.house.gov | legacy | WASHINGTON, DC Congresswoman Carol Shea-Porter (NH-01) released the following statement regarding todays Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2016 drug overdose death data, which shows that New Hampshires age-adjusted drug overdose rate leapt from 34.3 per 100,000 in 2015 to 39.0 per 100,000 in 2016, in the context of a national spike in deaths that the chief of the mortality statistics branch at the National Center for Health Statistics called more than an exponential increase: Todays announcement from the CDC that New Hampshire continues to suffer the second-highest drug overdose rate in the nation underscores the urgent need for increased federal assistance to fight the out-of-control opioid crisis. The Trump Administration must act now to provide emergency funding. Just yesterday, Serenity Place, the recovery center for the Manchester Safe Stations program where Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway staged a photo op earlier this year, entered receivership. New Hampshire urgently needs funding, not photo ops, from this Administration. When will President Trump confront this crisis as the emergency it is, instead of insulting our state and calling it a drug-infested den? BACKGROUND Shea-Porter has been a leader in the fight to secure increased opioid funding for New Hampshire, co-introducing legislation to invest $45 billion in combating the epidemic and pressing the Trump administration to redress New Hampshires unfairly low allotment of less than 1% of nationwide Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act (CARA) funding awards. Last week, Shea-Porter secured unanimous bipartisan support for her amendment to the Higher Education Act reauthorization bill that will require colleges and universities to adopt drug- and alcohol-abuse prevention programs that specifically address the opioid crisis. | 1 | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z | 2026-03-30T12:14:52Z |