Searchlight New Mexico
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These Foster Kids Need Mental Health Care. New Mexico Is Putting Them in Homeless Shelters
Youth crisis shelters aren’t set up to deal with foster youth who need intensive mental health treatment. When teens try to harm themselves or others, staff resort to calling 911
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Crowning Fury: New Mexico Wildfire Reignites Long-Standing Tensions
Anger toward the Forest Service has been smoldering for a century. Raging wildfires brought it roaring to life
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The War on Drugs Failed, But the Suffering It Caused Continues
“We didn’t have a heroin problem,” says one official. “We had an addiction problem."
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A DEA Raid Meant to Clean Up a New Mexico Town. Instead, It Made Everything Worse
Early one morning in 1999, federal agents descended on tiny Chimayó, New Mexico as part of a nationwide heroin crackdown. Locals say it broke up families and drove addiction deeper into the community
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Demanding Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
Four in five indigenous women will experience violence in their lifetime. Who will fight for them?
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Illegal Marijuana Farms on Navajo Land Raided by Authorities
A police raid near Shiprock, New Mexico has all but ended an illicit cannabis-growing operation, which residents have been fighting to evict
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