Life, Not Death, Is Focus of New Health Metrics

Published June 4, 2013

Life, Not Death, is Focus of New Health Metrics

Filed under: New Mexico Drug Addiction

The maps represent the ascendance of a new accounting of life and death led by Murray, a still-boyish-looking salt-and-pepper-haired 50-year-old who is the director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Rather than …. For the first time …
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Pill abuse on summit agenda

Filed under: New Mexico Drug Addiction

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – It's no secret prescription drug abuse is a big problem in New Mexico. In fact more people die from overdosing on them than on other drugs. All day Thursday the attorney general and other state leaders are going to talk about how …
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Global Commission on Drugs warns of miscalculation over Hep C epidemic

Filed under: New Mexico Drug Addiction

Ruth Dreifuss, your report warns that the criminalisation of drug use is fuelling what the commission is calling a global hepatitis C viral time bomb. … The state leaders decided at the last summit to mandate new analysis about the situation, the …
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