Theodore Alcorn

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.

A generation ago, the state's legislature set alcohol taxes at a few pennies per drink and hasn’t changed them since.

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.

Drinking kills New Mexicans at a far higher rate than anywhere else in the nation, and the crisis is escalating.

In New Mexico’s war on DWI, the relentless focus on drunk drivers misses the bigger problem of addiction.

As violence in New Mexico spikes, state leaders overlook alcohol’s integral role.

Stereotypes about alcohol and Native people are hiding a crisis that’s bigger than any single group.

Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem. Doctors can do more to treat it.