This story, part of an ongoing Public Health Watch project, “Uninsured in America,” was co-reported and co-published with KUNM public radio station in Albuquerque.
ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — Sarah Gregg describes the afternoon that Albuquerque police raided her home and condemned her house as the “best day” of her life.
It was a slow summer day. So Gregg, her husband and their two young daughters were still in pajamas when officers in SWAT gear pounded on the front door. Gregg had just finished her grocery list and was about to slip away to inject heroin. She was feeling more desperate than ever to stop using…