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Some Oklahoma parents turn kids over to the state after struggling to get mental health care for them

December 22, 2024
The sign outside of Youth Services of Tulsa. The non-profit agency runs an emergency youth shelter. DYLAN GOFORTH/THE FRONTIER

Lack of oversight, coordination hinder efforts to reform Arizona’s rise in maternal mortality

December 22, 2024
AZCIR Staff

‘Not knowing where to go’: Montana’s sparse landscape for alcohol detox

December 20, 2024
An emergency department sign in Missoula, Montana on Thursday, December 12, 2024. With very few treatment options available in Montana, hospital emergency departments are often the only place people can go when they are experiencing alcohol withdrawal. However, patients often end up leaving without the medication they need to manage withdrawal symptoms and they typically aren’t referred to inpatient or outpatient treatment programs. Credit: John Stember

Colorado’s quiet killer: Alcohol ends more lives than overdoses, but there’s been no intervention

A pedestrian walks past advertisements for beer at a liquor store along East Colfax Avenue in Denver.
A pedestrian walks past advertisements for beer at a liquor store along East Colfax Avenue in Denver on Jan. 3, 2024. ©Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post

The Denver Post by Meg Wingerter, January 4, 2024: Four-part series examines why state isn’t sounding the alarm after drinking deaths spiked during pandemic.

Colorado consistently has one of the worst rates of drinking-related death in the country, but alcohol hasn’t gotten nearly the attention devoted to other drugs. In this four-part series, The Denver Post investigated why so many Coloradans are dying from drinking, and what the state could do in an effort to reduce the number of people lost.

By the most conservative measures, alcohol kills nearly as many Coloradans as drug overdoses. When counting deaths from chronic conditions caused and worsened by alcohol, drinking’s toll far exceeds that of illicit drugs.

Deaths from drinking shot up since 2018, but during that time, Colorado didn’t take steps designed to change that trajectory, like raising alcohol taxes. The only major changes in liquor laws during that time expanded where residents could buy alcohol.

The months-long investigation included interviews with dozens of experts, families that lost loved ones, people in recovery from alcohol addiction and groups trying to change the state’s heavy-drinking culture.

Read more from The Denver Post here.