Reducing New Mexico’s extraordinary alcohol death rate will require a whole-of-society approach.
Category: New Mexico Voices
Blind Drunk: Paying The Tab
Scientists say policies can help the state cut excess drinking, but lawmakers listen to alcohol interests instead.
Blind Drunk: Every Door Is The Right Door
Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem. Doctors can do more to treat it.
Blind Drunk: Poisonous Myths
Stereotypes about alcohol and Native people are hiding a crisis that’s bigger than any single group.
Blind Drunk: A Missing Ingredient
As violence in New Mexico spikes, state leaders overlook alcohol’s integral role.
Blind Drunk: An Emergency Hiding In Plain Sight
Alcohol attributable deaths are higher in New Mexico than anywhere else in the country.
Blind Drunk: Eyes on the road
In New Mexico’s war on DWI, the relentless focus on drunk drivers misses the bigger problem of addiction.
Back to school in the fire zone
Classes are starting in northern New Mexico, where a wildfire left families without basics like running water. Searchlight New Mexico’s Alicia Inez-Guzmán explores how students learn after so much loss.
UNM Training Grant to Improve Special Ed Teaching
By Jacob Trasen / New Mexico News Port The University of New Mexico Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences was recently awarded an $830,000 grant that will help create the “Project SCENES” program at UNM. This program is designed to help teach UNM students to more effectively work with young students with autism and other… Continue reading UNM Training Grant to Improve Special Ed Teaching