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HUNTINGTON — Cabell County commissioners considered funding items during their Thursday meeting.

Drinkers’ beliefs about what constitutes safe and appropriate levels of consumption are powerfully shaped by drinkers around them.

We hear a lot about drugs like opioids, fentanyl and meth in New Mexico. But another substance is involved in more deaths than all of those drugs combined: Alcohol. It kills New Mexicans at a higher rate than anywhere else in the country, but laws taxing or limiting alcohol have been tough to pass. On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll discuss a new multipart series by New Mexico in Depth that explores the toll alcohol is taking on our citizens.

By 2013, Steve Harbin’s alcohol problem was plain to nearly everyone. Once a prosperous salesman in the construction industry, he’d lost his job and health insurance. Gone were the dream house he’d designed in Albuquerque’s foothills and many of the motorcycles he’d owned. The last one, a Kawasaki W650 with a peashooter exhaust, sat in […]

New Mexico is a violent state. It ranks among the worst for women murdered by men, child abuse and neglect are almost twice as common as they are nationwide, and its rate of suicide is one of the highest of any state. Last year, Albuquerque’s homicide rate shattered previous records, a 46% jump from 2020, […]

Alcohol alone does not cause violence, scientists say, but it increases its likelihood. One professor compares it to pouring gasoline on a fire.

Alcohol dependence is New Mexico’s biggest untreated substance use problem

HUNTINGTON — Leaders from across the country visited the area this week to learn skills from Huntington’s Quick Response Team that they will integrate into their own communities.

CANTON — St. Lawrence County legislators unanimously passed a resolution during Monday’s full board meeting authorizing a contract with Lighthouse Software Systems for enrollment verification services at the Addiction Services

After 17 overdoses — including four deaths — this spring, Indigenous leaders in Montana and surrounding states look for ways to stop the fentanyl crisis and provide more treatment and care.