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In Colorado, 76% of inmates have a moderate to severe need for substance abuse treatment. One of the programs funded by the Colorado Department of Corrections (CDOC) to help link this high volume of offenders with substance abuse treatment is the Colorado Treatment Accountability for Safer Communities (Colorado TASC) program, administered by a contractual relationship with Peer Assistance Services, Inc. (PAS).
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CFPS applies a public health approach to prevent child deaths by aggregating data from individual child deaths, describing trends and patterns of the deaths, and recommending prevention strategies. The data presented within this data summary come from comprehensive, statutorily-mandated reviews of deaths of people under age 18 occurring in Colorado between 2013 and 2017. Nationally, data indicate that substance use plays a role in the leading causes...
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"Dr. Dodes's approach runs directly counter to the paralyzing, but standard, message of 'powerlessness'-a message that reinforces the sense of helplessness that is at the root of addicts' life predicaments! Many psychiatrists recognize that this is where we must head, but Dr. Dodes is one with the guts to shine a beacon in the right direction."
-Stanton Peele, PhD, author of 7 Tools to Beat Addiction and The Life Process Program of Treatment
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"Meg works for a casino in LA, catching cheaters and popping a few too many pain pills to cope, following a far different path than her sister Haley, a famous actress. But suddenly reports surface of Haley dying at the remote rehab facility where she hadbeen forced to go to get her addictions under control. There are whispers of suicide, but Meg can't believe it. She decides that the best way to find out what happened to her sister is to check in...
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"Two girls find friendship on their path to mental health in a story of acceptance, recovery, and resilience"--
Dani comes from the richest, most famous Black family in Texas and seems to have everything a girl could want. So why does she keep using and engaging in other self-destructive behavior? Camila's Colombian-American family doesn't have much, but she knows exactly what she wants out of life and works her ass off to get it. So why does she...
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Study of mental health and substance abuse services in order to coordinate state agency efforts, streamline services provided, and maximize federal and other funding sources. The 1050 Task Force focused its efforts on the public systems that provide behavioral health services and did not address behavioral health services through the private insurance system. For purposes of this report, behavioral health is defined as encompassing both mental health...
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"Addiction can be an incredibly difficult subject for parents and caregivers to discuss with children, who are often the ones most impacted by it. This book provides an avenue for dialogue with the over 18 million children who are affected by addiction in America. It follows a simple metaphor of addiction as the main character, Sam, is swept away in a bubble. At first he is curious and excited, but he slowly becomes bored and isolated, encounters...