The Gallup Detox Center in Gallup, New Mexico. Image from Google Maps

The Navajo Nation has decided to stop operating a detoxification center in Gallup, New Mexico.

The tribe will cease running the Gallup Detox Center on October 3, The Gallup Independent reported. The city of Gallup has put out bids for a new operator, the paper said.

The tribe established the facility as Na’nizhoozhi Center Inc. in 1992 in collaboration with the city, McKinley County, Zuni Pueblo, the Indian Health Service and the state of New Mexico. Since then it has handled more than 250,000 cases, according to the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.

The tribe took over operations in 2014 and renamed it the Gallup Detox Center.

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Navajo Nation to stop operating Gallup Detox Center (AP / The Gallup Independent 9/14)

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