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List/Grid Author Archives: Mike Gallagher / Journal Investigative Reporter

Deadly Addiction – Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012

Deadly Addiction Drug Series (Tuesday) – Albuquerque Journal

Deadly Addiction – Monday, Aug. 13, 2012

Deadly Addiction Drug Series (Monday) – Albuquerque Journal
These pills were collected in a drive by the state Department of Public Safety to get unneeded painkillers out of homes.

700 Patients Used ‘Pill Mill’

700 Patients Used 'Pill Mill'
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Prescription Drugs Kill More in N.M. Than Heroin

Deaths from prescription opioid drugs tripled from 2000 to 2009

Most Abusers Get Pills From Friends, Family

The “medicine cabinet” issue is not urban legend; it is real. And one the Heroin Awareness Committee made a priority. “Educating parents, students and even medical professionals about the danger... Read more »
Female heroin addicts wrap themselves in blankets while withdrawing from heroin addiction. Photo Credit - Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal

Today’s Heroin Cheap, Attractive and Lethal

Part 2 of a four-part series. Read Part 1 here.
County jail inmate Angela Sandoval, 34, shows a letter written by her daughter begging her mother to stop using drugs. Sandoval was awaiting transport to the state women’s prison in Grants. Photo Credit - Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal

Drug-Troubled Mom Hopes To ‘Get Things Right’

Angela Sandoval, 32-year-old mother of three, is headed to prison again. She was interviewed through the glass of her cell door at the Metropolitan Detention Center while awaiting transport to... Read more »
Mike Salinas, 34, says heroin is everywhere. “You don’t need to find it. It finds you,” he says. Photo Credit - Pat Vasquez-Cunningham/Journal

‘Heroin Gets Into Your Bones’

There is a brutal honesty about Mike Salinas, leavened by a quick wit and laugh.

Federal Courts Tougher on Drugs

The state District Court in Downtown Albuquerque is just across Lomas Boulevard and a few hundred feet from federal court.

Opiate-Blocking Drug Saves Lives

The heroin overdose death rate in New Mexico could be a lot higher.
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Deadly Addiction

New Mexico's Love Affair With Drugs

For At-Risk Teenager, It’s ‘Easy To Get Into Trouble’

His friends call him "Gio," and so will we.

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