Public Policy

Big investors are… interested in buying low and selling high, in driving up the share price so they can turn around and place bets on how fast it will go down once the bad publicity hits.

Mood and motivation are, of course, a big part of the discomfort associated with having chronic pain.

Pundits are always telling us that science proves this or that, but when we look closer, we find it proves neither.

Few clinicians believed that street crack addicts could succeed as outpatients, but the demand for residential care was never fully met because of, you know, budget considerations.

Addiction has been described as a chronic problem that we’ve attempted to treat as an acute illness –a big reason for the revolving door of relapse.

By extension, (women’s) recovery success will positively affect communities’ (and the nation’s) health and economy.

Recovery-friendly communities encourage education, provide support for open communications, and reject assumptions that perpetuate stigma.

Like many rural areas, Taos County sees high rates of shockingly young students taking to heroin and alcohol. And like most of New Mexico, infrastructure and resources are stretched thin.

Kids like to bring up the fact that alcohol kills many times more Americans than marijuana (or heroin, or cocaine). So why are those drugs illegal, their use subject to harsh punishment, when alcohol isn’t?

Calling these diseases “behavioral illnesses” and calling our systems of care “behavioral health programs” promotes two destructive, harmful beliefs.