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Why are New Mexicans drinking themselves to death, and what can we do about it?
posted 02/04/2022
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.

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Why are New Mexicans drinking themselves to death, and what can we do about it?
Alcohol use has an outsize impact on public health in New Mexico, where alcohol is involved in... more »
posted 02/04/22

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Project: Politics trumps health in state’s response to alcohol crisis
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.
Project: Legislators consider key questions on alcohol tax reforms
Lawmakers concerned about New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate of alcohol-related deaths are focused on revising how the state taxes alcohol.
Project: Effort to raise New Mexico's alcohol tax falls flat
A generation ago, the state's legislature set alcohol taxes at a few pennies per drink and hasn’t changed them since.