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New Mexico AG reviewing practices of child welfare workers
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A newly-opened detox center in Gallup is filling a gap in social services by offering voluntary social and medically monitored detoxification for alcohol and drug abuse.
The Four Corners Detox Recovery Center has a 45-person capacity and is treating people who stay on average for five days. A longer term residential treatment program is expected to be added within three to six months, said Sylvia Barela, chief executive officer of parent nonprofit company Santa Fe Recovery.
“Gallup continues to have the highest alcohol-related death rate per capita of any community in the state and nation,” she said. In general, New Mexico has one of the highest rates of substance abuse, she added.
NMED Fighting Pandemic From Sewers: COVID-19 Wastewater Surveillance Program Shows Early Success
NMED News:
Program prevents outbreak at Las Cruces juvenile justice facility
In early December, the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) launched an innovative wastewater monitoring program to protect New Mexicans from COVID-19 at congregate settings in southern New Mexico.
Just a few weeks later, the program prevented a COVID-19 outbreak at a southern New Mexico juvenile justice facility. NMED is applying cutting-edge science to protect public health in southern New Mexico.
Here’s how it works:
COVID-positive individuals – whether they are symptomatic or not – shed COVID-19 in their feces;
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A New Mexico Environment Department employee collects a wastewater sample at a facility in southern New Mexico. An out-of-state lab tests the samples for concentrations of the virus that causes COVID-19. (New Mexico Environment Department)
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A state sewage testing program may have helped prevent a COVID-19 outbreak at a Las Cruces juvenile jail last month, the New Mexico Environment Department announced Monday.
NMED sampling data show that concentrations of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, were detected in wastewater at the J. Paul Taylor Center on Dec. 23.
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The Children, Youth and Families Department responded by testing more than 100 facility employees and residents for the virus.
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