Mental & Behavioral Health

A southwest Colorado nonprofit is working to address the high levels of substance use and mental health challenges in the restaurant industry.

Co-responders Tim Dellett and Connie Brydges regularly visit a sanctioned campsite in Alamosa, doing whatever they can to help the dozens of unhoused people staying there.

The leading causes of death among pregnant and postpartum people in Colorado are now suicide and accidental drug overdose.

Has a 2020 state law resulted in fewer separations of parents and newborns when substance use is involved?

There are only seven inpatient treatment centers for Medicaid-eligible pregnant people in Colorado. Slots at all of them are scarce.

Historically, “aging out” has led to numerous adverse outcomes, but Colorado is working to expand services and reverse that trend.

Construction industry workers are four times more likely to die from suicide than the general population.

Virtual recovery programs have helped improve access to treatment at a time when experts are seeing a rise in alcohol and drug use.

The inexorable rise of vaping in Colorado has illuminated longstanding disparities in tobacco consumption and marketing practices, especially along age, income and race lines.

The epidemic’s proportional cost to rural counties in human and fiscal terms is enormous compared to urban areas.