NHPR: Money set aside to help NH's opioid crisis could be steered elsewhere in the state budget

New Hampshire lawmakers have proposed diverting millions of dollars meant to address opioid addiction to help close the state’s budget gaps – alarming advocates who say it would upend a wide range of treatment, recovery and prevention programs.

At the same time, some advocates are also raising concerns about a separate plan from Gov. Kelly Ayotte to use some of the opioid settlement money for law enforcement activities in the North Country.