Category: New Mexico Voices

Blind Drunk: A Sober Appraisal

Illustration by Shelby Criswell for New Mexico In Depth

Reducing New Mexico’s extraordinary alcohol death rate will require a whole-of-society approach.

Blind Drunk: Paying The Tab

New Mexico State Capitol. Image by Marjorie Childress for New Mexico In Depth.

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

Steve Harbin sits at his dining room table at his home in Albuquerque, N.M. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth

Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem. Doctors can do more to treat it.

Blind Drunk: Poisonous Myths

Public safety officers help an intoxicated man who had fallen asleep outside the Sports Page Lounge in Gallup, N.M. CREDIT: Ted Alcorn for New Mexico In Depth.

Stereotypes about alcohol and Native people are hiding a crisis that’s bigger than any single group.

Blind Drunk: A Missing Ingredient

Dr. Larissa Lindsey of UNM’s Addiction and Substance Abuse Program, known as ASAP, at her home in Tijeras, N.M. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth

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

Blind Drunk: An Emergency Hiding In Plain Sight

A man shops in the alcohol department at a grocery store Albuquerque, NM on June 26, 2022. CREDIT: Adria Malcolm for New Mexico In Depth

Alcohol attributable deaths are higher in New Mexico than anywhere else in the country.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO: State Police Sgt. Toby LaFave speaks to a driver he pulled over on Interstate 40, under suspicion for driving while intoxicated. CREDIT: Marjorie Childress for New Mexico In Depth

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

Daniel Encinias sits in the bucket of a front-end loader on his property. Nadav Soroker/Searchlight New Mexico

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

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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