Subject: Mental Health

• Of Meth and Men

  March 29, 2007

• More Head Games

  March 12, 2007

• Trouble in Mind

  September 21, 2006

• In for Life: Day Nine of the Michael Tate Trial

  August 31, 2007

• In for Life: Day Eleven of the Michael Tate Trial

  September 5, 2007

• Mental health benefit and submachine guns -- the perfect combination

  September 25, 2008

• Suicide Mission

  August 20, 1998

• Shrink to Fit

  When Mental Health Services, Inc. went out of business, no one was around to help the therapists who were hurt.

  November 5, 1998

• A Badly Altered State

  A judge may force Colorado to take care of its homeless mentally ill population.

  September 14, 2000

• Call Me Crazy

  When the accused reject a not-guilty plea, Colorado's insanity law breaks down.

  January 11, 2001

• Teach Your Children Well

  The state is finding ways to treat behavioral problems when they first appear -- in daycare.

  May 10, 2001

• Letters to the Editor

  October 5, 2000

• Follow That Story

  April 5, 2001

• A Chemistry Experiment

  September 26, 2002

• A Hospital Without Walls

  Denver’s Court to Community program is showing promise.

  May 29, 2008

• Toast of the Town

  Denver C.A.R.E.S. picks drunks off the streets, then puts them right back out there.

  June 14, 2001

• The Good, The Bad & The Mad

  What happens to the mentally ill in the justice system is just crazy.

  May 29, 2008

• This Is Crazy

  Stan Israel spent two days in a psych ward. There was just one little problem.

  June 17, 1999

• Killer Instinct

  After Michael Tate lost all hope of a family life, he found the Devil.

  September 20, 2007

• You Do the Meth

  Police raids bust up drug labs. But they also bust up families.

  June 28, 2007

• Say Anything

  Friday, November 10, Cervantes' Masterpiece Ballroom, 1-866-455-2263.

  November 9, 2006

• Head Games

  At least one out of every five Colorado prisoners is mentally ill -- some violent, some undetected or untreated. How did the Big House become the Bug House?

  September 21, 2006

• Follow That Story

  Wild Child Revisited

  March 3, 2005

• Depressed About Anti-Depressants

  Big Pharma explores the dependency on mood-altering drugs.

  March 18, 2004

• The Centers of the Storm

  Are we having funds yet?

  December 4, 2003

• Nowhere Boy

  His biological parents didn't want him -- but to get him the help he needs, his adoptive parents must give him up.

  December 4, 2003

• Dr. Dicke's Day in Court

  A judge must decide if dildos are appropriate in therapy for sexually abused children.

  March 20, 2003

• Looking for a Fix

  Forty bucks buys a flicker of heaven and a life of hell.

  September 26, 2002

• The Shifting Drug War

  The pendulum is swinging back from stiff mandatory sentences for drug offenses.

  November 22, 2001

• Throw Away the Key

  Boulder County slams the door on a group of juvenile homes that won't lock theirs.

  September 13, 2001

• Mind Games

  The squeeze in managed mental-health care is choking patients and providers alike.

  May 24, 2001

• A Mile High

  Trick or treatment?

  March 1, 2001

• Suicide Watch

  Can a 24-hour crisis hotline put callers on hold? The state will get back to you on that.

  October 5, 2000

• The Wide World of Grief

  Colorado has become one of the country's hubs for teaching, and learning, how to feel bad.

  September 21, 2000

• Freudian Hips

  Rosanna Gamson's multimedia show examines the source of mental illness.

  July 13, 2000

• Head Case

  A lawsuit is driving DU's Graduate School of Professional Psychology crazy -- or was it already?

  March 11, 1999

• On Solid Grounds

  Looking for some holiday cheer?

  December 24, 1998

• Letters

  August 27, 1998

• The Big Fix

  A new detox program for heroin abusers storms into Denver. Methadone proponents are irked.

  July 30, 1998

• Used and Abused

  What's it like to work at the state's largest detox? These counselors were scared straight.

  July 23, 1998

• Fill'er Up

  In Trinidad, you don't have to drink in bars in wind up behind bars

  October 2, 1997

• Mental Anguish

  Rescuing the mentally ill has brought millions to the Mental Health Corporation of Denver--as well as complaints of coercion, mismanagement and neglect.

  December 5, 1996

• Letters

  August 15, 1996

• The Committed

  The state pours millions of dollars--and controversial social theory--into a prison for mentally ill felons.

  July 25, 1996

• LETTERS

  January 31, 1996

• OUT OF SIGHT, OUT OF MIND

  CLOSING THE HIGHLANDS BOARDING HOME PUT SOME OF DENVER'S MENTALLY ILL RESIDENTS ON THE ROAD TO A BETTER LIFE--AND LEFT OTHERS OUT IN THE COLD.LOST IN BEDLAM FOR MANY OF THE HIGHLANDS 100, DENVER'S PLAN TO RELOCATE THE MENTALLY ILL HAS BEEN A MOVE TO OBLIV

  January 17, 1996

• SEGREGATED SALVATION

  CHARGES OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION HAVE DENVER'S SALVATION ARMY AT WAR WITH ITSELF.BACKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIERS THE SALVATION ARMY'S DENVER REHAB CENTER IS THERE TO HELP, SAY FORMER EMPLOYEES--UNLESS YOU HAPPEN TO BE BLACK.

  April 19, 1995

• LETTERS

  June 8, 1994

• Where would you take a $100,000 check that is also a suicide note - to the cops or to the bank?

  May 14, 2009

• Stan Garnett: Colorado has mishandled the medical-marijuana issue

  Stan Garnett and Jann Scott: e-mail buddies?​Beware of sending an e-mail to Jann Scott. The longtime public-access gadfly (profiled by yours truly back in 1992, prior to the launch of our online archives) tends to forward his correspondence to anyone and everyone -- and that's precisely what happened in the case of an exchange about marijuana this week with Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett. Garnett has been out front about medical marijuana: A few months back, he declared that he wa

  November 19, 2009