Providers don’t prescribe drugs like buprenorphine, the gold standard for treatment. Why?
Vanessa G. Sánchez
Born and raised in Ecuador, Sánchez has written in-depth stories about issues affecting underrepresented communities, including migrant workers and asylum seekers in the U.S. She contributed to the award-winning investigations “Essential and Exposed” and “Printing Hate.” As an intern and Bradlee Fellow at The Washington Post, she covered education, local government and politics in the Baltimore-Washington region. She joins Searchlight as a yearlong Roy W. Howard fellow to cover health policies affecting children and families in New Mexico. Sánchez holds a master's degree in journalism from the University of Maryland.
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Posted inMental Health
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Posted inHealth
Maternal health crisis in New Mexico: services shrink, risks grow
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Posted inCriminal Justice
Calling in crisis
Crisis intervention by civilians seen as way to protect the vulnerable from interactions with armed police
Posted inHealth
Where have all the doctors (and nurses) gone?
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Posted inHealth
Eastern New Mexico is restricting abortion — one ordinance at a time
Roosevelt County is the latest to ban access
Posted inTribal Affairs
Searching on their own
A Navajo-led search and rescue group looks for missing and murdered Indigenous people — going where no one else will