Get to know Johnny’s Ambassadors
Today, we caught the vision for a new effort to raise awareness about the potential health harms of marijuana use and the importance of seeking mental healthcare for addiction and a wide range of mental health problems, including depression, suicidal ideation and...
Vaping victim: ‘We’re going to end up on oxygen in our 20s and 30s’
Dr. Christian Thurstone, director of Behavioral Health Services at Denver Health and a professor of psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently told ABC Channel 7 in Denver he knows why teens and young adults get hooked on vaping. It’s the...
Record-breaking level of 12th graders say they’re more likely to use legal marijuana
Marijuana use is up in the last year among American middle-school and high-school students, and legalizing the drug likely would mean many more underage marijuana users, according to Monitoring the Future, one of the United States’ largest studies of...
Public agencies need to do more to communicate marijuana product recalls
Marijuana product recalls in Colorado are not consistently, widely or even transparently communicated to the public online — and that concerns a growing number of healthcare providers. Among them is Dr. Ken Finn, a Colorado Springs physician whose group...Read the book
Clearing the Haze is a guide designed to help parents determine whether their child may have a substance problem and, if so, how to begin to address it. This book includes the voices and insight of experts in substance abuse counseling, young people in recovery, and parents who have lived the nightmare of adolescent addiction.