New Hampshire | NonOpioidChoices

State Facts

204

Deaths or 85.4% of all overdose deaths in the year ending April 2025 involved opioids.¹

Over 210,000

Claims or 3.2% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2023 – an average of 30 per prescriber.²

30.9

Opioid Prescriptions were written for every 100 persons in New Hampshire in 2023.³

$31.4 Billion

the estimated total societal cost of opioid use disorder (OUD) to the state in 2024.⁴

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Opioid Settlement Funds

$268,566,522.08

State Spending Recommendation

Support use of non-opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training providers to offer or refer to multi-modal, evidence-informed treatment of pain

Member & Endorser Footprint

Voices is backed by a broad coalition of organizations across the state united by a shared goal: ensuring patients have access to safe, effective,  and individualized pain management throughout the continuum of care.

Co-Sponsors (119th)

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)

Rep. Chris Pappas (D-NH-01)

2025 Introduced Relevant Legislation

HB 241

This legislation mandates that insurance providers cover a variety of pain management therapies as alternatives to opioid treatments, prohibiting insurers from imposing more restrictive utilization controls on non-opioid therapies compared to those applied to opioid drugs.

Introduced

01/07/2025

Plan Impact

Commercial

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Voices Letters

HB 241 Support Letter

Learn More

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool. https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f1051d23738c4980a08002bf301f7d8a

3. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/data-research/facts-stats/opioid-dispensing-rate-maps.html

4. Avalere Health (2025). The cost of addiction: Opioid use disorder in the United States. https://advisory.avalerehealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Avalere-Health-White-Paper_The-cost-of-opioid-addiction_OUD-in-the-United-States.pdf