Friendship House | Alcohol & Other Drugs

Alcohol & Other Drug Treatment Center Helping People. Changing Lives.

A fundraising campaign for Tri-County Community Action Program, Inc

NH "The state's underfunded network of treatment facilities can't handle the number of people seeking help to overcome addiction." (NHPR)

"So far this year at least 286 people have died from a drug overdose with 89 cases still pending." (NH Medical Examiners Office)

The deputy head of the Drug Enforcement Administration is calling New Hampshire "ground zero" in the opioid epidemic. It’s in every corner of the country, but I have to tell you, I think the Northeast, in particular New Hampshire, is ground zero," Riley said. (WMUR)


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If you are looking at where you can invest your charitable donation this year please consider our Friendship House project and support the TCCAP Division of Alcohol and Other Drugs. Our division serves over 500 low-income New Hampshire residents regain their life and learn how to live life again without the use of substances.


Addiction does not discriminate it affects every person in every community whether directly or indirectly! The only way we can make a difference is by working together! So yes, friends we are asking you to join us!

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Friendship House Addiction Treatment

Alcohol and Other Drug (AoD) program’s goal is to provide a comprehensive community-based approach to the problem of alcoholism and other drug dependencies in Northern New Hampshire. AoD facilitates a continuum of care component in the North Country beginning with outpatient services (OP) in Woodsville; a clinically managed eleven-bed medium intensity residential treatment program (CMMIRT) and a five-bed clinically managed low intensity residential transitional living treatment program (CMHIRT) in Bethlehem.


These continuum of care components receive approximately fifteen thousand telephone calls per year from individuals throughout the state of New Hampshire who have expressed the following: use and abuse of alcohol and/or other drugs to the extent that their life has become unmanageable; feel a need to seek clinical treatment as provided by our programs; are willing to undergo a two-hour substance abuse assessment interview with our clinician(s) to determine the level of care and receive a referral into a proper treatment modality. During the interview process, the following issues and problems are discussed: loss of employment; loss of home and/or family relations; involvement in the legal system; involvement in domestic violence issues; and physical and mental well-being placed in jeopardy. Residents of Grafton, Coos and Carroll Counties receive priority; however, treatment is accessible to all residents throughout the state of New Hampshire.


Millions of Americans are confronted daily with the devastating impact of substance abuse. It is a disease that cuts across all boundaries, but it is a disease that can be treated. Whether the affected person is yourself, a friend or a loved one, the Friendship House, A Tri-County Community Action Program Alcohol and Other Drugs (AoD) can make a difference.


Tri-County Community Action Program is dedicated to improving the lives and well-being of New Hampshire’s people and communities. We provide opportunities and support for people to learn and grow in self-sufficiency and to get involved in helping their neighbors and improving the conditions in their communities.


Tri-County CAP is a multi-program agency with many projects and service locations. If you are unable to find the information you need about TCCAP or any of its programs on our website tccap.org, or please call our Central Office in Berlin at 603-752-7001, or call one of our contact centers located throughout northern New Hampshire. For more specific information about the Friendship House project, to donate or volunteer,  contact Kristy or Nathan at 603-869-2210

Shaheen visits North Country Treatment Facility

December 8, 2016


DEA official: NH 'ground zero' of opioid epidemic

November 17, 2016


Jennifer Crompton  
News Reporter
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MANCHESTER, N.H. —

The deputy head of the Drug Enforcement Administration is calling New Hampshire "ground zero" in the opioid epidemic.

"It’s in every corner of the country, but I have to tell you, I think the Northeast, inparticular New Hampshire, is ground zero," Riley said.Deputy Administrator Jack Riley praised New Hampshire’s work to fight the epidemic during his third visit to the state. He said he has never seen anything as insidious as the opioid crisis, especially the spread of fentanyl.

Riley said fentanyl has caused the most per capital overdose deaths in New Hampshire. He said the synthetic opioid is produced and trafficked by Chinese organized crime and Mexican cartels.

"Usually, for instance, the cartels would transit another major city, but some of our investigations are actually seeing people that live in this general region dealing directly with cartel members along the border," he said.

Riley was full of praise Monday as boxes from National Drug Take-Back Day were loaded into trucks. Several tons of unused drugs were collected from 103 locations. He said he wanted to thank law enforcement and praise the state’s top-down efforts to fight the epidemic.

"People do commit burglaries to steal medications," Manchester Police Chief Nick Willard said. "Kids will take them to parties and give them to their friends, and it could take just one pill to give somebody an appetite for pain medication."

"I’m sure there’s a lot of opioids in there that would lead to a lot of abuse issues, and today’s a great day for law enforcement because this stuff is safely getting turned in," DEA assistant special agent Jon DeLena said.

Riley said that how New Hampshire fights the epidemic will play a part in how it’s done elsewhere.

"This is my third time here, and I look at it as kind of the most important place we put our foot in the country right now," Riley said.

Riley is optimistic, saying that DEA connections on the global front are as strong as ever. He said he’s also committed to putting more agents in New Hampshire.


http://www.wmur.com/article/dea-official-nh-ground-zero-of-opioid-epidemic/7158123

North Country treatment center plans expansion

November 7, 2016

North Country treatment center plans expansion

By JOHN KOZIOL

Union Leader Correspondent

BETHLEHEM — The Friendship House, the only residential drug-treatment center north of Franklin, hopes to renovate its existing facility and expand to meet the demands of the state’s opioid epidemic.

Robert Boschen, CEO of the Berlin-based Tri-County Community Action Program, on Monday confirmed that his organization, which covers Coos, Grafton and Carroll counties, is working with Affordable Housing Education & Development (AHEAD) of Littleton to meet those twin goals at a cost projected to be upward of $3 million.

The Friendship House has 18 beds now, which would be increased to 32.

Boschen said AHEAD is taking the lead on the Friendship House endeavor and is seeking grants for pre-development expenses.

He said the next-closest facility offering similar services is 66 miles to the south in Franklin.

Friendship House, according to its website, “serves individuals whose alcohol and drug use affects their daily living and causes family issues, irregular employment, arrest, etc.” Services are offered on a sliding fee scale.

Services include screening, assessment/diagnosis, referral to level of care, court substance-use-disorders evaluation, individual counseling, family counseling, group therapy, intensive outpatient program and a state-approved impaired-driver-care-management program.

The Friendship House also has peer-recovery support services and a short-term residential-substance-abuse-treatment program, whose average stay is 28 days or less.

According to the website, the program is designed to “assist individuals who require a more intensive level of service in a structured setting and/or individuals that may be homeless,” as well as a transitional-living program for “individuals in the early stages of recovery.”

There are Friendship House outpatient satellite sites in Berlin, Colebrook, Woodsville, Tamworth, and North Conway.

“This has been building for a while,” Boschen said of the plan to rehab the Bethlehem facility.

He said a recent code review by the town convinced Tri-County Community Action Program that doing it in combination with the expansion made more sense than doing it piecemeal.

As to the expansion, it was “jump started” by the opioid epidemic, said Boschen.

In 2015, there were more than 400 overdose deaths in New Hampshire from either heroin and/or fentanyl, a painkiller that is reportedly some 50 times stronger than pure heroin

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