Mental illness

State can’t meet deadlines for mental health evaluations

The Denver Post reports (dpo.st/2t2RNBY) the Department of Human Services on Thursday asked that for the remainder of the year…

June 23, 2017

Local News

Durango district warns of student exposure to destructive media

add additional counselors for 2017-18 school year

May 25, 2017

Local News

Deaths jolt Montezuma schools

Parents and students grieve, plan response

November 7, 2016

Local News

Gov. Hickenlooper vetoes mental health legislation

addressed issue confronted by rural hospitals

June 10, 2016

Local News

Rural Colorado hospitals fear veto of mental health bill

address legal conflict over holding patients

June 2, 2016

Nation & World

Germanwings probe proposes loss of pilots’ medical privacy

Authorities should re-examine how pilot health is monitored and assessed, and consider forcing medical practitioners to share any concerns with…

March 12, 2016

Local News

At Wit’s End with addiction? Vallecito ranch can help

30-day inpatient equine therapy

January 20, 2016

Local News

Panel in La Plata County: Physical, mental health care need to be integrated

Durango High screening students for suicide risk

November 19, 2015

Nation & World

Mental-health experts respond carefully to mass killings

Each time mental illness is cited as a possible factor in a high-profile mass killing, there’s a collective sigh among…

July 27, 2015

Local News

No place to call home

Clichés abound, but working poor, lower-middle class dominate

July 18, 2015

Regional News

Judge in Aurora theater shooting trial dismisses 3 jurors

Holmes Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. found the three women violated his orders to avoid outside information on James Holmes’…

June 9, 2015

Local News

City ponders its panhandling puzzle

maze clashes with the Durango marketplace

May 6, 2015

Regional News

Holmes studied brain disorders before attack

‘Absolutely out of his mind,’ his initial lawyer says

April 26, 2015

Regional News

Dementia patient may not see trial

An 87-year-old Alzheimer’s patient likely will not go to trial in the deadly beating of a fellow resident of the…

February 25, 2015

Regional News

Experts: Holmes unlikely to be freed

Holmes Associated Press DENVER – If James Holmes is found not guilty by reason of insanity in the Aurora theater…

January 15, 2015

Local News

Does ADA apply when police arrest mentally ill?

court to hear Calif. case

December 23, 2014

Local News

Durango woman forming group to help those who are mildly depressed

An initial meeting is scheduled from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in an upstairs meeting room at Durango Public Library.…

September 26, 2014

Local News

Mental health crisis hotline launched statewide

Colorado has the eighth-highest suicide rate in the nation, and now, mental health professionals are available 24 hours a day,…

August 13, 2014

Local News

Seclusion, restraint ineffective, state says

Analysis shows racial difference in treating mental-health issues

June 14, 2014

Regional News

Mental health centers get boost

existing providers to receive contracts

June 11, 2014

Local News

Criminalizing the sick

Durango man’s isolation in jail exacerbated his mental illness

June 9, 2014

Local News

With mental illnesses, help is hard to find

people end up waiting months to see psychiatrist

May 31, 2014

Local News

In jails, steep costs for caring for those with mental illnesses

Funding cuts limit treatment options

May 24, 2014

Local News

Trying to uncover the illness within

frequent flyers in emergency rooms have unmet mental-health needs

May 17, 2014