Tribal leaders to meet with feds in push against drug abuse

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico - an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction - are meeting with the U.S. Justice Department over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans.

Associate Deputy Attorney General Bruce Ohris is scheduled to talk with representatives and police chiefs from the eight northern New Mexico Native American pueblos as part of a push to combat heroin-related deaths across the state, including Indian Country,

New Mexico's drug overdose death rate was the second highest in the nation in 2014, according to the latest available numbers.

Tribal leaders to meet with feds in push against drug abuse