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