Providers don’t prescribe drugs like buprenorphine, the gold standard for treatment. Why?
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Still fighting for their birthright
For centuries, midwives and doulas have safely brought babies into the world. Will they ever be accepted?
Posted inMental Health
A deadly cry for help
Albuquerque police fatally shot unarmed Collin Neztsosie, who had called 911 during a mental health crisis. Did it have to happen?
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Maternal health crisis in New Mexico: services shrink, risks grow
CLOVIS — Victoria Robledo was two months pregnant last June when the only women’s health clinic in this eastern New Mexico town closed its doors. Hers was a complicated pregnancy that demanded specialized care, and Robledo, 24, soon found herself driving long distances — 100 miles to Lubbock, Texas, for her first ultrasound, 220 miles […]
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Where have all the doctors (and nurses) gone?
ERs and urgent care centers have become the default for medical care
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Eastern New Mexico is restricting abortion — one ordinance at a time
Roosevelt County is the latest to ban access
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United States files complaint against Modern Vascular and owner Yury Gampel
DOJ accuses Modern Vascular of defrauding patients and paying illegal kickbacks.
Posted inEnvironment
Fallout from a nuclear past
From Los Alamos to the Trinity Test site, the human toll of “nuclear colonization” looms large
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Burned out, ill-paid, overburdened
How New Mexico’s mental health system fails providers and patients alike
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‘Hurt people raising hurt people’
A mental health crisis grows in NM amid a dire lack of services