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DEA Dedicates Sept. 11 Memorial To Task Force Officers Who Died From Their Work At Ground Zero After 9/11 Attacks

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DEA dedicated this memorial Friday, Sept. 9, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va., to New York Drug Enforcement Task Force Officers who lost their lives from illness or disease caused by their work at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Courtesy/DEA

DEA News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) dedicated a memorial Friday, Sept. 9, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va., to DEA New York Drug Enforcement Task Force Officers who lost their lives from illness or disease caused by their work at Ground Zero after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Read More

DPLA Hosts Planned Parenthood’s Kayla Herring Monday

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DPLA News:

The Democratic Party of Los Alamos County welcomes Kayla Herring from Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains to its monthly meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 12.

The meeting will be held virtually via Zoom; the link is available at losalamosdemocrats.org and has been sent to the party mailing list.

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Los Alamos County Issues Sept. 9 COVID-19 Newsletter

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Courtesy/LAC

COUNTY News: 

In this week’s Los Alamos County COVID-19 Newsletter issued Friday, Sept. 9, William F. Athas, PhD, writes in the “Epidemiology Corner” that the CDC Community Level for Los Alamos increased from Low to Medium.

He states that, “For the week ending Sept. 6, the CDC Community Level is MEDIUM. Compared to the prior week ending Aug. 30, the reported case incidence in the county declined nearly two-fold from 160 to 88 per 100,000, but both Health Services Area (HSA) hospitalization indicators increased by roughly two-fold.

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New Mexico Higher Education Department Applauds Rio Arriba County & UNM-Taos Partnership To Train 48 Students In Overdose, Opioid Use Disorder Response

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NMHED News:

  • Program will train 48 students to respond to overdoses, opioid use disorder

TAOS – The University of New Mexico-Taos and Rio Arriba County have received $190,000 to train 48 new EMT first-responders to effectively respond to drug overdoses and other scenarios related to opioid use disorder across rural northern New Mexico.

The competitive Rural EMS Training Grants were awarded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to counties disproportionately affected by opioid use disorder and aims Read More

Dr. Cook: Suicide Prevention …Knowing Signs, Getting Help

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By GLENDON COOK, MD
Los Alamos Medical Center

Suicide is a complex and alarming public health issue that causes pain to hundreds of thousands of people each year. Suicide continues to be one of the fastest-growing epidemics around the world and is a leading cause of death in the U.S. In fact, the U.S. suicide rate in 2020 was 30 percent higher than in 2000, with nearly 46,000 deaths due to suicide. In the same year, there were an estimated 12.2 million Americans that seriously thought about suicide, while 3.2 million planned an attempt and 1.2 million actually attempted suicide.

With September serving Read More

AG Balderas Delivers Opening Argument With Demand For Accountability In High-Profile Opioid Trial Against Walmart, Walgreens, Kroger

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Attorney General Hector Balderas

From the Office of the Attorney General:

SANTA FE — New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas delivered opening remarks, kicking off the State’s opioid trial against Walmart, Walgreens and Kroger. 

The trial addresses the State’s allegations that the companies substantially contributed to the opioid crisis in New Mexico by failing to monitor suspicious orders of opioids and failing to investigate prescriptions filled at their pharmacies that may have been written for an illegitimate purpose.

The trial, which began Sept. 6 in Santa Fe, is expected to Read More

DOH: Youth Suicide Rates Decline Slightly In New Mexico

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DOH News:

SANTA FE — The New Mexico Department of Health (DOH) Epidemiology and Response Division report provisional data show a small decline in the 2021 suicide rate among youth, ages 5-18 years over 2020.  

It is a beginning in a what is expected to be a long-term collaborative effort with the New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) and community partners to address a nationwide problem of suicide death rates, which exceed national averages.   

“Suicide prevention works. It requires concerted effort of people properly equipped with training and resources. We need to maintain focus Read More

Frontiers In Science: Developments In Detecting Disease

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Harshini Mukundan reveals how the human immune system inspired a better approach for identifying and diagnosing new diseases during her upcoming Frontiers in Science talks in Los Alamos and Santa Fe. Courtesy/LANL

LANL News:

Frontiers in Science presents Harshini Mukundan and a look at how the human immune system inspired a new, universal approach to diagnosing emerging infectious diseases. Join the Los Alamos National Laboratory Fellows and the Bradbury Science Museum for this free public talk Thursday, Sept. 15, in Los Alamos or Friday, Sept. 16, in Santa Fe.

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UWNNM Live United Interns Making Important Impact

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UWNNM Intern Natalia Maestas

UWNNM News:

UNM-Los Alamos student Natalia Maestas and Northern New Mexico College student Chris Perez are the first of five Live United Interns to be hired to perform duties to further the work of United Way of Northern New Mexico (UWNNM) to improve the lives of children and families through service collaboration.

In their first two weeks, Maestas and Perez presented new 40-page printed 2-1-1 Resource Directories to a coalition of nonprofit and government first responder agencies at the Rio Arriba Community Health Council.

In the months ahead, the Interns will Read More