Drinking kills New Mexicans at a far higher rate than anywhere else in the nation, and the crisis is escalating.
Community & Public Health
Alcohol hasn’t received the attention it deserves. Here are tools to report on it, whether your beat is health, crime, business, or politics.
When it comes to drinking, how much is too much?
Reducing New Mexico’s extraordinary alcohol death rate will require a whole-of-society approach.
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.
An average of more than five Marines per year died by suicide at Camp Pendleton. At least 20 took their lives in the barracks – and another four during training exercises.
The new facility is expected to open in November 2023 and will have 18 hemodialysis stations.
The goal is to shift calls away from police. But as the launch begins, most communities are not prepared.
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.