As a society, we are judged by how we treat the most vulnerable among us. Everyone deserves a second chance. Learn more at New Mexico People of Substance: https://t.co/VXohYVgN3h || #NewMexico#NMPeople#NewMexicoTrue
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"My dependence on OxyContin grew and the changes to its manufacturing and limited supply forced me to choose, quit or use heroin. Without the tools to cope through my emotions..." https://t.co/2K6hQiimpq || #NewMexico#NewMexicoTrue#RecoveryPosse
Angel Garcia — #NewMexico People of Substance
"But, you know? Little things that happen that bring me to this point…If they hadn’t picked me up, if she hadn’t called me in, something worse might have happened to me."
https://t.co/nGVtxW7DOt || #NewMexicoTrue#NM#ABQ
US youth vaping epidemic just keeps getting worse & worse (except that US youth vaping rates have actually been declining since 2019). And also vaping has blitzed youth smoking.
Nicolassa.
I grew up in the North Valley. I don’t remember much. I’ve blocked the trauma but I remember bits and pieces. My mom gets remarried to this guy who just got out of prison. He used to... #NewMexico#ABQ#RecoveryPosse
Read: https://t.co/khml3kabOL
🚨Action Alert: The Land of Enchantment Legacy Fund will be debated by the full Senate on 2/14!
#SB9 will open new doors for our air, land, economy, and culture - urge your senator to vote "YES!" at
https://t.co/FzXt8rE1dI or call their office.
#OpenNewDoorsNM#NMLeg#LegacyFund
Can’t even begin to say how grateful I am to have learned from @marisa_demarco at the start of my journalism career. Eager to keep going with @shaun505 stepping in as @source_nm editor as Marisa becomes a national editor.
So many great things.
https://t.co/HY8VrYksNb
Jamie Arguello.
“I started my addiction in my early teens running around the streets of #Española. I was in and out of jail from the moment I turned 18...I completed the treatment successfully but it was something I did to get out of going to jail..."
#NewMexico#RecoveryPosse
Stephan Suazo.
"I’ve been sober for 5 years now and I know what triggers me…the stuff that gets to me…the stuff that makes me irritated and I’ve got to work with that. Knowing my triggers helps to keep me safe."
Read on: https://t.co/7fypQ4UdkI || #NewMexico#RecoveryPosse
Carlos Gonzales.
"A bunch of cops came in & slid a pile of warrants under the door of my cell...I start reading through the warrants & realized…man, I’m looking at twenty-five years. I was like…wow…I’m done."
Read on: https://t.co/zcVKqcwXjg || #NewMexico#RecoveryPosse
Nathan Gay.
"God said ‘right now you have a choice. Stop what you’re doing and go north. You’ll do wonderful things with your life but you have to leave now. The alternative? You will be dead within a month.’ "
Read on: https://t.co/REVXw5ZeF9 || #NewMexico#RecoveryPosse
Rob Vigil.
"I was born and raised in #Española. Drug of choice was always alcohol. I was drinking since I was a teenager. It’s part of our culture here. In northern #NewMexico, you can’t tell the difference between a wedding and a funeral...."
Read on: https://t.co/IkkwXir5MN
Desiree.
"Then I got in a car accident. You know, I was 14 years old at the time and had no business driving but…anyway, severe backpain from the accident. So I go to the hospital and they prescribed me pain pills...."
Read her full story: https://t.co/egfYW7C9qF
#NewMexico
"Everything I experienced, witnessed, and done over there in Iraq, I just wanted to forget about it. But I didn’t know at the time that I was just self-medicating. I wasn’t thinking that..." Read the full story at:
https://t.co/lQLPtZLpMs