Dear Editor...Isn't it interesting how New Mexico's behavioral health spending keeps rising (can I say, booming!!!) --- $555 million was just allocated in the latest Santa Fe budget --- and yet New Mexico's 'substance abuse DISORDER' ranking keeps falling --- the latest, from 36th to 44th WORST IN AMERICA (ABQ Journal, Dan Boyd, 6/25/25). U know, it ain't working now, but if we just spend more money, maybe it will???
And reflectively, here in gorgeous Silver City, a behavioral clinic reopens --- yeah!!! --- as the senior centers close???!!! And so it seems: buckets of money for the 'mashed minds' of locals, curdled by NM hallucinogens; but no lunch money, no 'mashed potatoes' for everybody's Abuela.
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Pete Stubben
Silver City