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Category: Healthy New Mexico
Podcast demo: Psychedelia
By Chris Robbins
Psychedelic drugs are not just for counterculture escapism anymore. This podcast pilot explores the emerging dimensions of psychedelics as medicine.
Podcast demo: Universal Overload
By Miyawni Curtis
Do we appreciate the mental health of the leaders in our community? This podcast will explore that and more. Hear a clip from the upcoming episode in which a former high school coach confronts why she left.
Nursing students hope to alleviate staffing shortage
By Justine Collister
New Mexico has been facing a nursing shortage since before the pandemic. A solution would be to graduate more nursing students from our schools.
Push for safer cannabis packaging continues
By Sara Atencio-Gonzales
A bill aimed at keeping edibles out of the hands of small children failed in the Legislature but supporters say they’ll keep trying.
UNM drops Covid-19 vaccine mandate
By Elijah Barela and Elizabeth Secor
Almost three years since COVID-19 thrust the world into the unknown, UNM took a major step back into normalcy and dropped its vaccination requirement for students, faculty and staff.
Flavored tobacco ban advances
By Mariah Baca
Approximately 85% of kids’ tobacco use is flavored e-cigarettes and a ban would make vaping less attractive to young people, supporters say.
Where have all the doctors (and nurses) gone?
By Vanessa G. Sanchez/Searchlight NM
A dire scarcity of providers leaves New Mexicans without health care.
Proposed office of alcohol prevention steps up ambition, but is short on vision
By Ted Alcorn/NM In Depth
New Mexico Department of Health asked the legislature for $5 million to build an Office of Alcohol Prevention and would expand the staff to 13.
Some experts say the plan isn’t enough to handle the crisis.