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Environmental Health
When it comes to drinking, how much is too much?
Scientists say policies can help the state cut excess drinking, but lawmakers listen to alcohol interests instead.
Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem. Doctors can do more to treat it.
The new facility is expected to open in November 2023 and will have 18 hemodialysis stations.
The first in a three-part series following the intergenerational effects that the United States government’s century and a half practice of placing Indian children in boarding schools has had on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota.
California’s coercive control law was enacted too late to help Blanca in her divorce from a husband she describes as manipulative and emotionally abusive.
"I worked with a lot of seniors facing a tremendous amount of stress and housing insecurity and, you know, deciding between feeding your pets, yourself, or paying your rent," said one Bay Area director of senior housing.
A judge in Southern California embraced a new state law allowing victims to claim coercive control, that was designed to tip the balance in favor of women seeking child custody and restraining orders.
A California law broadening domestic violence protections could help restrain abusers who manipulate their partners financially and psychologically. Two women who sought remedies through the courts share stories of a justice system stacked against them.