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This story was originally published bySearchlight New Mexicoand is published here as part of an ongoing collaboration with Rolling Stone.Additional reporting by Don J. Usner.Read a companion piece about the criminalization of addiction here. Francesquita Martinez’s words are slow and deliberate, perhaps a result of the methadone she’s taking to …

For the first time since the National Safety Council started tracking preventable injury and fatality statistics in 1913, Americans are more likely to die from an opioid overdose than in a car accident. The NSC calculates the “Odds of Dying” based on statistical averages, dividing the one-year odds by the …