Therapy On The Farm Posted 2006-02-20
Crossing Creeks Assisting Mentally Ill With Work; Looking To Expand
By Melvin Mason
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Crossing Creeks has been open for more than a year, serving as a therapeutic community for people with long-term mental illness, such as schizophrenia and major depression.
Now, the organization is looking to expand so more people can receive assistance through work and support."
Full story:
http://www.dnronline.com/news_details.php?AID=3074&CHID=1
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Ex-inmate freed from meth
Man says he was lucky to be caught, forced to change
By Chris Barge, Rocky Mountain News
February 20, 2006
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Meth and identity theft, a crime committed in large part by meth addicts, are now the state's two biggest crime-fighting problems, Colorado law enforcement officers and legislators say. And authorities lament that efforts to date haven't seemed to reduce either the supply or the demand for meth in Colorado.
Rather, local crackdowns have just encouraged Mexican drug cartels to bring meth online with the other drugs they already ship to Denver, U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration officials say "
"Freeman was released from prison five months ago to the Peer 1 Therapeutic Community at Fort Logan, where he has embarked on a two-year recovery program. "
Full story:
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_4481391,00.html
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