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What to know as Brent Sullivan's mother faces trial for son's death from fentanyl overdose
Carlsbad Current-Argus via Yahoo News· 1 year agoBrent Sullivan's mother was charged with child abuse resulting in death after her 12-year-old son...
‘Flood the state with naloxone’: In the last decade, Utah bucked the national trend of opioid...
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAccording to CDC data, opioid overdose deaths in Utah have declined since 2012, while deaths in...
States consider 'safe injection sites' to prevent overdoses
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn a Colorado mountain town, Christine Collins injected herself with black tar heroin while hanging...
New Mexico lawmakers say alcohol will be on next year's agenda
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoPowerful state lawmakers are signaling their desire to address New Mexico’s worst-in-the-nation rate...
A sober appraisal: How New Mexico can reduce rate of alcohol-related deaths
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoAt a 12-steps meeting in Albuquerque’s foothills, one of hundreds held each week statewide, there were cowboys, Anglo women in golf shirts, and Hispanic day laborers. A woman without housing ...
DEA El Paso seizes 1.5 million pills of fentanyl in 2023, drug leading cause of overdoses
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoFentanyl continues to be one of the deadly drugs in the El Paso area as the U.S. Drug Enforcement...
Filmmaker visits El Paso to share stories of fentanyl's deadly impact on area families
The El Paso Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOne story could save a life. Filmmaker Glen Muse is traveling across Texas to record and share the...
COVID deaths were cut nearly in half in 2022, but disease is still a top killer, especially in the...
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoTravelers at Los Angeles International Airport wear masks in May 2022. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles...
Communities struggling with opioid addiction have a new complication: climate disasters
Popular Science via Yahoo News· 9 months agoNaloxone is an opioid antagonist that rapidly reverses an overdose from opioids such as heroin,...
New Mexico governor appoints new top health official
Las Cruces Sun-News via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSANTA FE — Oregon's top health official will be taking the reins of New Mexico's Health Department as the state builds a new veterans home and grapples with the enduring hardships of COVID-19 ...
