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Basalt is reaping more revenue than expected from its tobacco tax. It will increase the amount of funding it gives to groups providing prevention and treatment services for addictions as well as groups that provide mental health services. ....
5:27 The Mountain West has some of the highest suicide rates in the United States. Colorado is no exception; the state has been in the top 10 for highest suicide rates in the country since 2009. Ski towns, in particular, have significantly higher rates of suicide than the national average. Mental health experts have called it the “paradise paradox,” and the University of Colorado’s School of Public Health cites factors ranging from financial instability, geographic isolation, lack of healthcare, easy access to firearms and the transient nature of resort communities as being some of the reasons communities in rural areas across the Mountain West continue to suffer from high suicide rates. In Aspen, that rate is two to three times the national average, according to CU’s School of Public Health. ....
Jeff Teaford poses for a photograph in the Treehouse in Snowmass Village on Thursday, Dec. 3, 2020. Longtime Roaring Fork Valley resident Jeff Teaford believes he’s got the right stuff to help people addicted to opioids he himself was addicted to painkillers for 12 years while battling chronic pain. Teaford, 58, said he conquered his addiction to Vicodin four years ago. With the help of recovery professionals, he now is sharing his story and messages of hope with those facing similar struggles. Helping others, he said, is a way of healing himself. “I believe I can do this based on my story,” Teaford said. “I believe in this so much that I need to make it happen. Whatever I do, it needs to matter.” ....