[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 162 (2016), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 951]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




               GRANITE STATERS COPE WITH HEROIN EPIDEMIC

  (Mr. GUINTA asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GUINTA. Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize selfless Granite 
Staters, helping our State cope with the deadly heroin epidemic. Last 
month, in Rochester, I visited Hope on Haven Hill. Kerry Norton and 
Colene Arnold founded the charity to help pregnant New Hampshire 
mothers recover from heroin addiction and improve the health of their 
newborns.
  Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome--newborn babies addicted to drugs--is 
growing at a fast rate as heroin abuse spreads across our country. 
There were over 27,000 NAS cases in 2014, up from 5,000 just a decade 
earlier.
  Babies with NAS suffer from painful withdrawal. Treatment centers 
like Hope on Haven Hill are helping to prevent the worst kind.
  Another place in Manchester, New Hampshire, Hope for New Hampshire 
Recovery, will also open. Melissa Crews and Dick Anagnost, cofounders 
of Hope for New Hampshire Recovery, are donating their time and energy 
to supply our State with more treatment options as Federal, State, and 
local governments develop better solutions.
  In Congress we created the bipartisan task force to combat the heroin 
epidemic to help develop these types of solutions, and I praise these 
individuals for their selflessness.

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