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Theodore Alcorn
Independent Journalist
Independent Journalist
Scientists say policies can help the state cut excess drinking, but lawmakers listen to alcohol interests instead.
Reducing New Mexico’s extraordinary alcohol death rate will require a whole-of-society approach.
When it comes to drinking, how much is too much?
Alcohol hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Here are tools to report on it, whether your beat is health, crime, business, or politics.
Alcohol use has an outsize impact on public health in New Mexico, where alcohol is involved in one in six deaths among working-age adults.