A review of internal records and interviews with a dozen current and former health department staff show what expertise it possesses has long been muzzled or ignored.
Lawmakers concerned about New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate of alcohol-related deaths are focused on revising how the state taxes alcohol.
Over 73,000 residents who could benefit from treatment to reduce their alcohol consumption are not getting it, more than people addicted to all other substances combined.
Stereotypes about alcohol and Native people are hiding a crisis that’s bigger than any single group.
As violence in New Mexico spikes, state leaders overlook alcohol’s integral role.
In New Mexico’s war on DWI, the relentless focus on drunk drivers misses the bigger problem of addiction.
Drinking kills New Mexicans at a far higher rate than anywhere else in the nation, and the crisis is escalating.
Alcohol hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Here are tools to report on it, whether your beat is health, crime, business, or politics.
Reducing New Mexico’s extraordinary alcohol death rate will require a whole-of-society approach.
