Understanding Alcohol's Impact in NM

New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)

Host Lou DiVizio rounds up key headlines in our state, including an update on a temporary water treatment facility in Las Vegas, where ash and wildfire debris are contaminating drinking water.

Then, in collaboration with New Mexico In Depth, an exclusive roundtable discussion on alcohol in New Mexico. Journalist Ted Alcorn and a panel of experts discuss his extensive, 7-part series called 'Blind Drunk.' It exposes the fact that alcohol is killing New Mexicans at a higher rate than anywhere else in the country. In this conversation, Gene Grant explores the factors at play, from drunk driving, to alcohol’s impact on violent crime, poisonous myths when it comes to who carries the burden of this problem, failings in our state’s public policy, and the overarching issue of addiction and how it’s treated.

Host: Lou DiVizio

Panel Host: Gene Grant

Guests:

Ted Alcorn, independent journalist

Kamilla Venner, PhD, associate professor of clinical psychology at UNM

Dr. Jennie Wei, internal medicine physician, Gallup Indian Medical Center

St. Rep. Joanne Ferrary, D - Doña Ana County

For More Information:

Blind Drunk – New Mexico In Depth

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