Issues
New Futures supports policies aimed at preventing and reducing underage alcohol and other drug problems. New Hampshire's underage alcohol and other drug problems are among the highest in the country.
Administration & Control of Alcohol Sales
New Futures opposes legislation that would permit the sales of spirits in grocery and convenience stores. Research shows that expanding availability of alcohol increases problems associated with its use.
New Hampshire is one of 18 control jurisdictions for the sale of alcohol, maintaining monopoly control over the wholesale distribution of wine and liquor and monopoly control over the retail sale of spirits. New Futures supports the maintenance of New Hampshire as a control jurisdiction, believing that state control of the distribution of the sale of alcohol improves public health and safety and optimizes the profits from the sale of alcohol for the benefit of all New Hampshire citizens.
New Futures opposes alcohol advertising that is directly to or has a significant impact on underage youth. New Futures supports local control over alcohol advertising signage to ensure that communities are able to maintain their community image, support local business, and ensure public health and safety.
Access to Prevention, Treatment & Recovery Supports
New Futures supports efforts to treat the whole person through the integration of substance use, mental health, and primary care services.
New Futures supports implementation of the Affordable Care Act. The act provides unprecedented opportunity for access to prevention, treatment and recovery supports.
New Futures supports supports development of a Resiliency and Recovery Oriented System of care, because it supports person-centered and self-directed approaches to care that build on the strengths and resilience of individuals, families, and communities to take responsibility for their sustained health, wellness and recovery from alcohol and drug problems.
Public Health & Safety
New Futures supports efforts to provide education, assessment and treatment to those who need it in a resiliency and recovery oriented system of care.
New Futures opposes efforts to decriminalize the cultivation, possession, or use of marijuana because current research indicates that marijuana is an addictive substance and can be harmful, particularly to youth.
The issue of the legalization of marijuana for medical purposes is a complex one, that involves questions of medical risk and efficacy as well as those related to the impact of legalization on rates of the nonmedical use of an otherwise illegal substance. New Futures has not taken a position on state legislative proposals to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
New Futures supports the implementation of evidence – based educational and environmental strategies to reduce underage alcohol use including maintaining the minimum legal drinking age at 21 and limitations on alcohol advertising.
New Futures opposes legislation that would lower the legal drinking age. Consumption of alcohol impedes healthy brain development in young people and negatively impacts public safety.
New Futures joins communities, members of the medical professions, law enforcement, public health and human services officials, educators, and others in recognizing the scope of the prescription drug abuse epidemic in New Hampshire. New Futures supports the prompt implementation of the strategies set forth in the Call to Action on Prescription Drug Abuse released in January 2012 by the Governor’s Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention, Intervention, and Treatment.
New Futures believes that research clearly shows that the creation of a secure electronic system to monitor the prescribing and dispensing of controlled prescription drugs is an important tool in addressing the epidemic of the abuse of controlled prescription drugs. New Futures supports current legislative efforts to pass legislation that would enable New Hampshire to become the 49th state to enact prescription monitoring program legislation.
Advocacy
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On Wednesday, May 9, New Hampshire moved one step closer and only one vote away from becoming the 49th...
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On Tuesday, April 24, the Senate Ways and Means Committee put the next to last nail in the coffin of...
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On Tuesday, the House Health, Human Services & Elderly Affairs Committee unanimously voted to...
Policy
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For those of you who do not know me: I am a smart, informed mother. I do not draw a line of denial around...
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Unless you are a policy geek like me, you may not be aware of the drama and excitement surrounding the...
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Decriminalization sends a message that possession and use are okay.
Partnership
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Q. What do the Associated Press, the Concord Monitor, WMUR, National Public Radio and NHPR all have in...
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Approximately 40% of people with a substance use disorder also have a mental health disorder.
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As the weather warms up and we head into the prom/graduation/cookout/wedding season, many of us are...
Leadership
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The media workshop New Futures sponsored with White Birch Communications and the Endowment for Health has...
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Did you happen to see the New Hampshire Sunday News on March 11, 2012? The Sunday News launched a four-...
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On Thursday, March 8, 2012, the New Hampshire House of Representatives voted on HB 1526, which...
