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Native American cartoonist featured in anti-opioid addiction campaign
Medication Assisted Treatment, Native American Outreach, NMCAL, Opioid Misuse, Opioid Use, Prevention
SANTA FE – State health officials are leveraging a prominent Native American cartoonist as part of a unique effort to... View Article
People Recently Released From Incarceration Are At a Much Higher Risk for Opioid Overdose.
Two-thirds of prisoners in the United States have a history of opioid use. Prescription or illicit opioid overdose death risk... View Article
Opioid epidemic: Preventing overdose deaths
Addiction, Medication Assisted Treatment, Naloxone, Opioid Misuse, Opioid Use, Press Releases, Prevention
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — As an overdose prevention coordinator, Bernie Lieving works to prevent drug overdoses and train first responders, families,... View Article
Medication-assisted treatment used to fight opioid addiction
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Dr. Leslie Hayes began working as a family doctor in Rio Arriba County when the area claimed... View Article
New Naloxone Map
As New Mexico continues the fight against opioid addiction, state health officials have been working hard to offer more resources... View Article
Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths
Prevention and treatment efforts should attend to broad polysubstance use/misuse.
Let’s Talk Recovery From Opioid Addiction
Let’s Talk New Mexico 8/8, 8a: Call in now 505-277-5866. New Mexicans trying to kick an addiction to opioids have limited... View Article
New Mexico delegation announces plan to help combat opioid abuse
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — In 2017, 2 out of 3 overdose deaths in the state involved an opioid, according to the New... View Article