Category: Public Health Community

Gateway Center partly open for winter shelter

The Gateway Center in Albuquerque is supposed to be a wide funnel for people who need housing and other health and social services. Skye McMillon found the place is only partially open as winter weather begins blowing into town.

NM Legislature introduces bill to block Holtec nuclear waste site

By Lindsay Fendt/Searchlight NM

Efforts to limit the amount of nuclear waste in New Mexico took a major step forward Wednesday as lawmakers introduced a bill that would essentially ban the storage of high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel in New Mexico.

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.

Blind Drunk: Eyes on the road

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.