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Medication Assisted Treatment Programs in Vermont State Correctional Facilities
Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) is an addiction treatment program that pairs therapy with medication to treat substance use disorders. Currently, Vermont (VT) has an extensive MAT infrastructure consisting of regional treatment “hubs” and community-based “spokes.” The state legislature is considering legislating that MAT beneficiaries should…
Financial Considerations for Paid Family Leave in New Hampshire
Paid family leave is a major issue that has gained prominence in the past electoral cycles, with both President Obama and President Trump supporting paid leave programs at the federal level.<a href="https://rockefeller.dartmouth.edu/#_edn1" name="_ednref1">[i]</a> Currently, there is no national program providing paid family leave to workers, but…
Regulating Credit Reporting Agencies
Credit is a vital aspect of the global financial system, as it allows consumers and businesses to maintain a constant flow of money that fuels the economy. Without credit, most individuals would not be able to major purchases like a car or a home, and…
Liberia 2040: A Development Roadmap
This report is the product of over 12 weeks of rigorous research, including two weeks in Liberia. The team consulted development economics, health and policy literature, as well as newspapers and personal memoirs. In country, we met with public and private sector leaders including the…
Promoting Maternal and Child Health in Kosovo
The 1999 conflict in Kosovo left the country with some of the worst maternal and infant health outcomes in all of Europe. Although many maternal and infant health indicators have since improved, the fragmented system has allowed other health outcomes to worsen, including dramatically increasing…
Paid Family Leave:
Paid family leave is an issue that has taken the spotlight at the national level and in states across the country. In March 2016, only 13 percent of private employees in the United States had access to paid family leave. Three U.S. states have paid…
Civil Discourse in Nonprofit Programming
Over the past year, New Hampshire Humanities, a statewide nonprofit aimed at connecting and cultivating communities across cultures, has seen a rise in antagonistic outbursts and verbal attacks during its lecture series, Humanities on the Go. They have tasked us with finding a solution to…
R.D. Karve and Male Middle-Class Sexuality in Western India Correspondence Published in Samaj Swasthya, 1927-53
<a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/modern-asian-studies/article/sexual-knowledge-sexual-anxieties-middleclass-males-in-western-india-and-the-correspondence-in-samaj-swasthya-192753/4A9663EFD18733032FFD0F357F9CABDB/share/90ac1433c34d4349170f632fe35aedc30f825e92">Modern Asian Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 4 / July 2017</a>Author(s): Douglas Haynes, Shrikant BotreThis article examines letters written by young men to the Marathi-language journal <em>Samaj Swasthya </em>and its editor, R. D. Karve, a major advocate of birth control and sex education…
Data Security in New Hampshire
As the world has become increasingly digital, New Hampshire has stored more information online. Many of the New Hampshire state databases contain sensitive information about individuals, businesses, and property within the state. This report seeks to answer the question posed by Representative Neal Kurk of…
Secure Housing and Treatment Options for the Non-Criminal Mentally Ill in New Hampshire
New Hampshire currently houses mentally ill patients considered dangerous to themselves or others in the Secure Psychiatric Unit (SPU) of the New Hampshire State Prison for Men in Concord. Patients are transferred to the SPU from New Hampshire Hospital when the security level of the…