
Keep NM Alive
A Conversation About Fentanyl
On Oct. 13, 2022, Bernalillo County and the City of Albuquerque hosted a community-wide fentanyl summit as an introduction to an extensive fentanyl awareness campaign to immerse the community in an education process to combat this life-ending and family-shattering drug. Hundreds attended in person and hundreds more watched online.

Missed our summit? Watch it below!
2022 Fentanyl Summit: Opening Remarks
2022 Fentanyl Summit: Frontline Panelists (Public Safety, Health, and Education)
2022 Fentanyl Summit: Judicial Panel
2022 Fentanyl Summit: Community Provider Panelists
2022 Fentanyl Summit: Family, Individual, and Peer Testimonials and Closing Remarks
Provider Interviews
Choice Recovery Path
Under His Construction
Courageous Transformations
UNMH Addiction and Substance Abuse Outpatient Program
Serna Solutions
Caroline Jaramillo
Founder and CEO Marc Schmallentalks to BernCo Fire and Rescue’s Janessa Ruiz about how his organization is helping people in recovery, organizations providing recovery services to clients and governmental agencies.
Vice President Chris Cleveland discusses housing, education and career development for people coming out of incarceration and homelessness. Janessa Ruiz of BernCo Fire and Rescue talks to Joey D. and Mike T. about the work the organization does in the community.
Janessa Ruiz with Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue interviews Charlotte Breeden and Carla Moore about how they are helping individuals with opioid use disorder.
Janessa Ruiz with Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue interviews Cade Arnink about how the program provides comprehensive treatment programs for those dealing with addiction.
Janessa Ruiz with Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue interviews Brian Serna about helping families with a loved one who is dealing with addiction and treating the whole family as opposed to just the person in crisis thru the Family Empowerment Project.
Janessa Ruiz with Bernalillo County Fire and Rescue interviews this community organizer and activist who lost her son to fentanyl poisoning.
Personal Testimonials
Personal Testimonial: Vivian Sena
Personal Testimonial: Stacy Burleson
Personal Testimonial: Tanya Tijerina
Personal Testimonial: Kim Trujillo
Viviana Sena opens up about the loss of her daughter to fentanyl. Originally from Las Vegas, NM, Viviana’s daughter, a cheerleader, was injured after being dropped by her teammates at a game and started taking opiates to deal with the pain.
Stacy Burleson is a former drug dealer whose daughter is addicted to Fentanyl. Stacy has dramatically turned her life around and is currently the Executive Director of Women in Leadership. Stacy spends her life now helping women in jail and prison beat drug addiction and a life of crime.
Tanya Tijerina, Clinical Operations Manager at the Second Judicial District Court, opens up about her family’s battle with their her daughter’s addiction to fentanyl and working on it every day to help her daughter with the struggle.
Kim Trujillo, former television news anchor/reporter, costume designer and currently the Development/Advancement Director at Heading Home, opens up about her family’s struggle with her son’s fentanyl addiction and mental health issues she is working on day in and day out.
Narcan Can Save a Life
Get it and carry it with you always.
If you or a friend or family member are using opioids like the blues, heroin, fentanyl, keep a Narcan kit available for you or a friend or family member to use in case of an overdose.
Narcan kits are available at Bernalillo County Behavioral Health Services at the Central In-take office all day, everyday.
Staff will review how to use Narcan to revive a person experiencing an opioid overdose. Remember when you’re ready, we are ready to help you enter care. Recovery is possible.
Call Bernalillo County, Behavioral Health Services, CARE Campus, 505 468-1555 for more information.
The CARE Campus is located at 5901 Zuni Road SE (Valencia SE at Zuni Road SE).
How to Get Narcan
To get Narcan anywhere in New Mexico, call (505) 270-5943.
How to Administer Narcan
Watch this training video to see how to administer Narcan.
Fentanyl: A Deadly Drug
Bernalillo County, the City of Albuquerque, the Drug Enforcement Administration, and community partner organizations have joined forces to launch a community educational awareness campaign dealing with the deadly drug fentanyl. This extensive fentanyl awareness campaign will immerse the community in valuable information to combat this life-ending and family-shattering drug.
Fentanyl use, overdose, and poisoning have taken a toll in all regions of our country, from the largest cities to the smallest towns. Parents and community members who once thought “it could never happen to my family,” are now facing the harsh reality of educating themselves on how to identify the presence, use, and how to seek resources to fight addiction of fentanyl.
The campaign is entitled “keepNMalive” and began Oct. 13, 2022 with a community-wide discussion about fentanyl. The goal of this free summit was to provide awareness to the cause, supply, consequences of use, and community resources to combat the impact fentanyl is having on the community. Assistance information was provided to individuals or families affected by fentanyl and the summit featured more than 40 experts in their respective fields.
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- Albuquerque Community Safety
- Albuquerque Community Policing Council
- Bernalillo County Department of Behavioral Health Services
- Bernalillo County Office of Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health Initiatives
- Addiction and Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) – UNM
- Bernalillo County Economic Development-GMC Consultant
- Best Chance – Services for the Recently Released
- Casa De Salud
- Choice Recovery Path
- City of Albuquerque Emergency Rental Assistance
- Community Veterans Court, Bernalillo County Metropolitan Court
- Courageous Transformations
- Crossroads for Women in Leadership
- CYFD New Mexico Children Youth & Families Department -Behavioral Health Services
- Duke City Recovery Toolbox
- Endorphin Power Company
- Four Corners Detox Recovery Center, Gallup
- Frontline Resurrection
- Haven Behavioral Hospital of Albuquerque
- Heading Home
- Hope Realized Homes
- Lovelace Health System G.R.A.C.E. Program
- Mesilla Valley Hospital
- Molina Healthcare of New Mexico
- New Growth Counseling
- New Mexico Office of Peer Recovery and Engagement (OPRE)
- NM Leaders in Recovery-Vista Taos
- NMDOH – New Mexico Department of Health – Overdose Prevention Program
- NMDOH – New Mexico Department of Health Turquoise Lodge Hospital
- Open Skies Healthcare
- Presbyterian Community Health
- Presbyterian Health Plan
Santa Fe Recovery Center - Serenity Mesa
- Serna Solutions, LLC
- Solutions Treatment Center
- State of New Mexico Behavioral Health Services Division – Human Services Department
- Violence Intervention Program
- Vista Taos Renewal Center
- Women in Leadership
Online Resources
U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
New Mexico State Department of Health
Bernalillo County Behavioral Health Initiative/Behavioral Health Services Department
You Are Not Alone
A Lethal Dose
Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids are the most common drugs involved in overdose deaths. Even in small doses, it can be deadly. Over 150 people die every day from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl.