The panel in charge of health issues at the New Mexico Legislature set its agenda for the rest of 2023, with an emphasis on child abuse and neglect, substance use disorder, and the health care workforce.
OPINION: Adding money to expand services is going to be successful only if there are actually social workers, counselors, psychologists and psychiatric nurses available to staff those programs.
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