Substance Use

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

Quarterly report for measures related to prescription drug overdose in New Mexico.

Our nation is in the midst of an unprecedented opioid epidemic. More people died from drug overdoses in 2014 than in any year on record, and the majority of drug overdose deaths (more than six out of ten) involved an opioid. Since 1999, the rate of overdose deaths involving opioids—including prescription opioid pain relievers and heroin—nearly quadrupled, and over 165,000 people have died from prescription opioid overdoses.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

Prior to 1997, New Mexico had the highest rate of alcohol-related motor vehicle crash (AR-MVC) deaths in the United States. However, New Mexico’s AR-MVC death rates and its rank in the nation have dropped considerably.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

Drug overdose death has become the leading cause of injury death in New Mexico and nationally over the past decade (New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiological Profile, 2013). New Mexico had the second‐highest drug overdose death rate, after West Virginia, in 2010 (CDC Wonder).

New Mexico (NM) had the highest rate of alcohol-related motor vehicle crash (AR-MVC) deaths in the United States prior to 1997. However, New Mexico’s AR-MVC death rates and its rank in the nation have dropped considerably in recent years.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

As recently as 1996, New Mexico had the fifth highest rate of alcohol-impaired motor vehicle crash (AI-MVC) death in the United States. However, New Mexico’s AI-MVC death rate and its rank in the nation have dropped considerably in recent years.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

The New Mexico Substance Abuse Epidemiology Profile is a tool for substance abuse prevention planners at the state, county, and community level.

While alcohol-related motor vehicle crash death rates have decreased, death rates from other alcohol-related causes - injury deaths including suicides, homicides, falls, and non-alcohol-poisoning; and alcohol-related chronic disease deaths, particularly chronic liver disease - have actually increased.

The economic costs associated with alcohol abuse in New Mexico in 2007 amounted to an estimated $2.8 billion or more than $1,400 for every person in the state. This estimate represents an 11% increase in both total and per capita costs over the costs reported previously for 2006.1 This increase was the result of an 11% increase in New Mexico's alcohol-related death rate, from 48.8 deaths per 100,000 in 2006 to 54.2 deaths per 100,000 in 2007.