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DEA Releases 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment

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DEA Administrator Anne Milgram

DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram announced the release of the 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment (NDTA), DEA’s comprehensive strategic assessment of illicit drug threats and trafficking trends endangering the United States.

For more than a decade, DEA’s NDTA has been a trusted resource for law enforcement agencies, policy makers, and prevention and treatment specialists and has been integral in informing polices and laws. It also serves as a critical tool to inform and educate the public.

DEA’s top priority is reducing Read More

LANL: Climate Change Could Expand Habitable Environments For Mosquitoes

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Carrie Manore, left, and Morgan Gorris are part of a team at Los Alamos National Laboratory that is looking at how climate change could impact where mosquitoes live. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

  • More communities could be at risk for contracting mosquito-borne diseases

A research team at Los Alamos National Laboratory is using computer models to simulate how climate change could expand the geographical range in which mosquitoes live, which may cause an increase in mosquito-borne illness. The study was recently published in the Journal of Climate Change and Health.

“We found that all nine species Read More

Los Alamos Medical Center Names 2024 Mercy Award Winner

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Los Alamos Medical Center CEO Tracie Stratton, left, with 2024 Mercy Award winner Jacqui Carroll. Courtesy/LAMC

LAMC News:

  • Jacqui Carroll recognized for demonstrating compassion and unwavering commitment to helping others.

Los Alamos Medical Center (LAMC) is proud to announce that Jacqui Carroll has been recognized as the facility’s 2024 Mercy Award winner. The Mercy Award recognizes one employee from each of Lifepoint Health’s facilities who profoundly touches the lives of others and best represents the spirit and values on which the company was founded. Jacqui and other facility Read More

Catch The Wellness Wave: Senior Health Fair May 14

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By KIAH MCCONNELL
LARSO

The Los Alamos Retired and Senior Organization (LARSO) is hosting a Senior Health Fair, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, at the Betty Ehart Senior Activity Center. This program is designed for community members older than 55, as well as families and caregivers who support the seniors of Los Alamos County.

A variety of community and health organizations will be represented, ranging from assisted living, in-home care, health & wellness specialties as well as general nursing services and health therapies and even environmental education.

There will also be a series Read More

DEA Recognizes National Fentanyl Awareness Day

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DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — DEA joins “Song for Charlie” and many of its valued law enforcement, public health and non-profit partners in recognizing National Fentanyl Awareness Day.

Today represents an important opportunity to honor those lost to fentanyl poisonings by educating others about the deadly threat of this synthetic opioid. 

To commemorate the first-ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day two years ago, the DEA Museum opened the Faces of Fentanyl exhibit at DEA Headquarters. The memorial wall, which now features more than 5,000 photos of Americans lost to the fentanyl crisis, Read More

LAHS Graduate Focuses Master’s Thesis On Local Data

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Los Alamos High School 2019 graduate Brandi Weiss. Courtesy photo

By BERNADETTE LAURITZEN
Los Alamos

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series highlighting Los Alamos High School graduate Brandi Weiss and her master’s thesis on adolescent risky behavior in Los Alamos.

As you are growing up in a town, you may not realize how the things you see and experience affect you in the moment. You may also never dream that the seed of experience planted might later come to define a portion of your future. It could then lead to you educating the very community that played a role in raising you.

Enter Read More

Partridge: Thanks For Yard Sale For Breast Cancer Support

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By NANCY PARTRIDGE
Los Alamos

I would like to thank you for running the press release and flier about the Yard Sale for Breast Cancer. I would also like to express my gratitude to the many people who responded to the press release and dropped off donations for the sale.

Many people came to the sale both days and generously purchased items, often rounding up the purchase price or declining change from the cash they offered.

This is truly a wonderful supportive community and I am grateful for the generous people who live here.

If anyone would still like to donate to Susan G Komen through supporting the Read More

New Mexico Superintendent Of Insurance Urges Consumers To Protect Themselves Against Identify Theft After Cyberattacks

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From the Office of the Superintendent of Insurance:

SANTA FE – The Office of the Superintendent of Insurance (“OSI”) is urging consumers to take action to protect their personal information from identity theft following Change Healthcare’s cyberattack on Feb. 21, 2024.

On Feb. 21, 2024, Change Healthcare, a company which handles 50% of all medical claims across the county, experienced a cyberattack on Feb. 21, 2024. Change Healthcare confirmed that consumer’s personally identifiable information was accessed during the attack. For more information about the cyberattack, visit Change Read More