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Podcast: New Mexico in Focus (A Production of NMPBS)
Episode: Understanding Alcohol's Impact in NM
Description: 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.Â
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 d...