NM Ranks Among Biggest Drug ProblemBy: Mariah Tso '21 New Mexico is ranked the 6th state in The United States for the biggest drug problem. It was also ranked number the 3rd in the state for the highest percentage of teenage drug use and numbered 14th in the state for adult users. It is ranked 13th in the state for overdose. In 2016, New Mexico was ranked second in the state for overdose. In the year of 2016, just under 500 Mexicans died from overdose and the year of 2015, 540 people died from overdose. WalletHub determined which states have the biggest drug problem and ranked them to three categories the first one is Drug Use and addiction. The Second one is Law Enforcement. The third one is Drug health issues and rehab. All the categories were evaluated 20 metric including the drug use problems which included with teens with adults. Also, the federal drug spending control has increased over the years from 2013 to 2017. In 2013 it was $23.8 million and for 2017 it increased to $27.5 million. The ranked states 1-10 of biggest drug problem: The first state is District of Columbia. The second state is Missouri. The third state is New Hampshire and the 4th state is Michigan. The 5th state is West Virginia. The 6th state is New Mexico. The 7th state is Indiana and the 8th state is Rhode Island. The 9th state is Kentucky. The final state is Pennsylvania. https://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2018/05/15/new-mexico-ranks-among-states-with-biggest-drug.html http://www.ktva.com/story/38188650/ranked-which-states-have-the-biggest-drug-problem http://www.koat.com/article/nm-ranks-second-in-the-us-for-drug-overdose-deaths/5071860 Speaker of the Weak Megaton's MMA instructor, Angelo Lincoln is speaker of the week. His goal is to teach students how to protect themselves and have self-control.
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Hey! It's Your New Editor!Hi Ambush readers, My name is Meche’ Williams; I attend Gallup High School as a junior, but once next school year starts, I’ll be a senior (class of 2019). I started off writing for the former Associate Editor Lucia Kezele. Now I am the new editor of Southwest Interests. Since the new change in Editors the style of how we run the newspaper will change, but more specifically speaking for Southwest Interests section. I plan to add more diversity by having more articles of the cultures in the region, publishing events that go on (locally, statewide, on the navajo reservation, etc.), as well as students and adults recognized throughout the region for their outstanding performance. My goal for this section is to have one story a week from each reporter published every Friday. I would like to thank the former editors from each section for helping me grow as a person and a writer; they helped me see that there's different perspectives to each story, to be aware of other people's ideas/morals, make sure you can back up your story, you must have reliable sources, and make sure you’re unbiased. As an editor I hope to carry on the teachings they taught me onto the new reporters. Sincerely, Meche' Williams Ambush Reporter Hello Ambush Readers,
My name is Mariah Tso and I am an ambush reporter. I am a Freshman at Gallup High School and next coming school year I will be a sophomore. I will be graduating from the Class Of 2021. I wrote for the sports, arts and culture section before, but I mainly wrote for the southwest interests. I will continue my position as an ambush reporter. I will be writing for each section and provide new stories every week. I want to inform you, the ambush readers what's going on around the world. I would like for you as readers to keep reading. I support our motto “New Student Want New Student Write”. We, the ambush staff, will be publishing every Friday, just as before and we want you to keep reading. Sincerely, Mariah Tso Nurses Training to Help Sexual Assault Victimsby Meche Williams '19 In Albuquerque, New Mexico a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (SANE) named Alejandra Casarrubias, whose job is to answer calls to meet a sexual assault survivor. Casarrubias meets the survivor in an interview room at the Family Advocacy Center in downtown Albuquerque. With Casarrubias’s friendly and caring manner she listens to the survivors story while they sit in the room fully stocked of cloths, hygiene kits, and refreshments. During the time they spend in the family room the nurse will conduct the examination, collecting DNA samples and taking photos of injuries and clothing. Once the nurse is done with the examination the survivor can take a shower in the adjoining bathroom. Since Casarrubias has been a nurse the youngest person she had to examine was three years old and the oldest was eighty-six. The New Mexico Coalition of Sexual Assault Program has centers located all around New Mexico and has been up since 2004. You can find these centers in ten places: Alamogordo, Albuquerque, Clovis, Carlsbad, Farmington, Las Cruces, Roswell, Sante Fe, Silver City and Toas. The Coalition Program trains nurses who want to become a SANE so they know how to properly examine a sexual assault survivor. A SANE, in addition to their primary jobs, also do specialized work; the SANE’s are on call for twelve hour shifts and during that time they respond day or night to examine the survivor when they are summoned to conduct an exam on. Monohan, the state coordinator for the coalition program, says the burnout rate is high because of the demand of the work cna take a toll on them emotionally and physically. https://www.abqjournal.com/1164968/nurses-help-ensure-justice-for-sexual-assault-victims-2.html Man Set to be Executed for Birthday Shootingby Shawn McCraith '18 Erick Davila is set to be executed on April 25th for a birthday party shooting that left two dead back in 2009. The two victims were his rival gang member’s mother Annette and his 5-year-old daughter Queshawn. His case was heard by the US Supreme Court but it was rejected last year which was originally argued against but now he is set to die. Erick Davila, age 31, has been on death row for nine years now and is set to be executed on Wednesday for shooting at a Fort Worth household which was hosting a birthday that resulted in two deaths. Davila asked to stop the execution because of new claims about drug use during the murders and a conflict of interest within the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office. Davila has been continually fighting his sentence by saying he only meant to kill his rival who was Jerry Stevenson and not 5-year-old granddaughter or his 47-year-old grandmother.The court had to figure if Davila’s intentions were to kill more people than just the two victims for him to be eligible for the death penalty. Prosecutors argued that Erick Davila meant to kill more people referring to his statement of trying to get “the guys on the porch” and the “fat dude.” In a statement written to the police Davila said,”I wasn't aiming at the kids or the woman and don't know where the woman came from.” The question of intent is what led to Davila’s case being sent to the nation’s highest court in the spring of last year. The jury found Erick Davila guilty and it would not have been so if someone else was hurt, not the grandmother or the girl. Now that the case in the US Supreme Court if he is found guilty he will be executed after 6 p.m. on Wednesday April 6th. https://www.texastribune.org/2018/04/25/texas-death-penalty-case-went-us-supreme-court-now-set-execution/ Last Week's Poll Results!!Last week we asked Ambush! Poll takers if they thought logging was the most dangerous job: 100% said yes.
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