Hassan Meets with Addiction Recovery Advocates

Supporters and leaders within New Hampshire’s substance addition recovery community met with Gov. Maggie Hassan, D-Exeter, recently and also unveiled a new flag to symbolize the recovery community’s movement.

Hope for New Hampshire Recovery, a grassroots organization of people who support addiction recovery, met with Hassan in the Executive Council Chambers to “discuss the future of a recovery-oriented New Hampshire.”

Marty Boldin, board member of the group, spoke about the consequences of alcohol and other drug misuse in the state, according to a statement.

“Each day in our state, young people and adults are dying needlessly to the public health crisis [of alcohol and other drug addiction],” Boldins said. “It is our hope that this flag will act as a symbol to communicate individual and organizational support for recovery from alcoholism and drug addiction. Husbands, wives, sons, daughters, parents, friends, employers, and neighbors bare the weight of untreated addiction every day; and many do so shrouded in the false belief that there is no help, that there is no way out.”

The group met with Hassan to speak about expanded support and assistance involving New Hampshire’s commitment “to fund prevention, treatment, and recovery services by following the Alcohol Fund formula in the next biennium budget,” including an emphasis on communicating with the public.

“What would New Hampshire look like if there were addiction recovery community centers across the state to support proven pathways to health for people seeking recovery?,” Boldin asked.