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Deb Haaland Vows to Address Fentanyl Crisis and Support Paths to Recovery at Awareness Walk
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Native Vote. At Saturday’s Walk For Our Lives fentanyl awareness event in Española, Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), a candidate for governor of New Mexico, joined families affected by the fentanyl epidemic and pledged to take action on the crisis. She promised to direct resources toward addiction recovery programs, family support services, and to equip law enforcement with the tools needed to combat the spread of illegal drugs across the state. The event was led by Española native Alicia Pauline Vigil-Ryan, whose son died from fentanyl poisoning in 2022.
“The rise of fentanyl in our communities is heartbreaking. It ruins lives and families. Thank you to Alicia for your strength in leading us all today. As governor, I’ll invest in addiction services, making sure families have support, and in law enforcement so they have the tools to keep our community safe and provide the help the community needs,” Haaland said.
A recent report from the New Mexico Department of Health reveals a significant spike in overdose deaths in Rio Arriba, Santa Fe, and Taos Counties, with fentanyl responsible for the majority of those fatalities.
Haaland has spoken openly about her own past struggles with addiction, giving her a personal understanding of how deeply substance abuse impacts individuals and families—and the difficulty of accessing help. While serving in Congress, she secured $9.4 million in funding for New Mexico communities to address the opioid epidemic and expand addiction services. As Secretary of the Interior, she partnered with Indian Health Services (IHS) to bolster mental health support in high schools serving Native youth, aiming to prevent early pathways to addiction.
About the Author: “Levi “Calm Before the Storm” Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) is the founder, publisher and editor of Native News Online. Rickert was awarded Best Column 2021 Native Media Award for the print/online category by the Native American Journalists Association. He serves on the advisory board of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association. He can be reached at levi@nativenewsonline.net.”
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National Recovery Month: Denver man who battled opioid, heroin addiction shares his story to inspire others
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DENVER — September is National Recovery Month, and according to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, seven out of 10 adults with substance use disorder consider themselves in recovery.
Doug Eisiminger said a skiing accident in 2007 led to a downward spiral.
“Life was good. I was a bartender downtown, making great money, living my best life. Then I tore my MCL skiing,” said Eisiminger.
Eisiminger was prescribed opioids for pain control, and he quickly became addicted.
“The opiates started becoming very popular because they were saying that they were safe and they were nonaddictive,” said Dr. Ernesto Herfter, a physician with AdventHealth Porter Hospital, of typical medical advice during the 90s and 2000s. Herter did not prescribe the opioids to Eisiminger.
Eisiminger said his painkiller addiction eventually led him to heroin use. He said his severe addiction lasted for more than a decade.
“I was out committing crime every day to feed my addiction. I got pulled over by the Denver Police Department and I was given Denver Drug Court,” he said. “I focused on getting done in one year and being back to the same old life. About probably six, seven months into the program, I realized that life wasn’t for me anymore.”
His recovery treatment led him to Dr. Herfter.
“When he came to see me the first time, he was discharged from the hospital, he had just been amputated, one arm, because he got necrosis from getting multiple injections of heroin. He was also withdrawing from opioids, so he was in a very bad shape,” Herfter said.
The doctor added buprenorphine to Doug’s recovery plan, a painkiller that was approved by the FDA as an opioid addiction therapy in 2002. Since then, it’s become a well-used treatment for recovery.
“It’s a partial agonist. It doesn’t fill the whole [brain] receptor. It doesn’t give you the sensation of euphoria, but it decreases the cravings completely because it covered that part of the receptor,” said Herfter.
Now an addiction recovery advocate, Doug hopes to inspire others to find the help that works best for them.
“You have to get to that point in life where you want that help,” Eisiminger said, “Life’s great. I have a full-time job, I’m paying my bills. I love life.”
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