Police investigate 6 fatal overdoses in Sebago Lake region
Cumberland County Sheriff Kevin Joyce says 4 of the fatal overdoses since Dec. 1 occurred in Standish.
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The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office is investigating six fatal overdoses that occurred in the Sebago Lake region in less than two months, including five in a three-week span, Sheriff Kevin Joyce said Monday.
Four of the fatal overdoses between Dec. 1 and Jan. 24 occurred in Standish. The department also responded to 11 calls to provide medical attention to people who overdosed but survived.
During the same period, the sheriff’s office arrested and charged 28 individuals with various drug crimes. Police have seized 11 different types of drugs, including narcotics, stimulants and others, Joyce said.
FORT COLLINS SummitStone Health Partners has opened the Garcia House in Fort Collins. The new facility is one of only three Circle Programs in the state.
Garcia House is named after Fred Garcia, one of Larimer County’s most stalwart Substance Use Disorder champions.
The Garcia House is a new mental health facility offered by SummitStone. Courtesy SummitStone.
Garcia House provides residential treatment for up to 16 residents who are working through co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. Length of stay will be determined by medical necessity and may be up to 90 days, with intensive support following discharge.
“I am extremely proud for SummitStone to be able to bring this milestone program to the entire recovery community,” Michael Allen, SummitStone CEO, said in a written statement. “Garcia House offers the promise of evidence-based practices in a warm, supportive, home-like environment to help our highest needs patients begin their journey of recovery.
SummitStone Health Partners Opens 16-Bed Inpatient Behavioral Health Facility
Share Article FORT COLLINS, Colo. (PRWEB) January 25, 2021 SummitStone Health Partners announces the grand opening of Garcia House, A Circle Program by SummitStone. Garcia House is named in honor of one of Larimer County’s most stalwart Substance Use Disorder (SUD) champions, Fred Garcia. It is one of only three Circle Programs within the State of Colorado.
Garcia House provides residential treatment for up to 16 residents who are working through co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders (SUD), bringing our community one step closer to achieving the vision of providing a full continuum of care for adult SUD services within Northern Colorado. Length of stay will be determined by medical necessity and may be up to 90 days, with intensive support following discharge.
Colorado s Crisis Service System sees big jump in calls for help, many pandemic-related
Hotline calls, texts up 33% from 2019 to 2020
olorado Crisis Services is being slammed with requests for help, in large part, because of the pandemic.
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DENVER â Colorado s Crisis Service System is being slammed with requests for help, in large part, because of the pandemic.
Dr. Robert Werthwein, director of Colorado s Office of Behavioral Health, said phone calls and texts to the crisis hotline have jumped 33%.
He said in October 2020, there were nearly 25,000 calls and texts sent in, compared to 15,000 in October of 2019.
He said callers have been reaching out for help with everything from depression, social isolation, anxiety around the pandemic, or life in general.
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Colorado’s Medicaid program is expanding its substance use disorder benefit to include new services like residential treatment programs.
Colorado is increasing addiction treatment for Medicaid members.
Starting on Jan. 1, Health First Colorado will expand its substance use disorder (SUD) benefit. Residential and inpatient treatment and withdrawal management services, including detox, will be added to Medicaid’s existing list of covered services.
The new services will be an entitlement benefit, giving Medicaid members access to a full range of treatment options. This continuum of care is important, said Laurel Karabatsos, deputy Medicaid director at the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Finance, especially with the impacts of COVID-19 and the state’s ongoing opioid crisis.