by CCHR CO | Jan 9, 2026 | Colorado Mental Health Institute, General News
The proposal targets longstanding gaps in VA prescribing practices that leave veterans uninformed about addiction, suicide and other serious side effects. psychiatrist just gave you a prescription for a new drug which, he claims, will cure whatever ails you. What do...
by CCHR CO | Aug 5, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Denver area psychiatrist Howard Weiss has been indicted on 120 federal charges that include allegations he prescribed higher doses of psychiatric drugs without trying lower doses or alternative treatments first. At least one of his patients died of an overdose,...
by CCHR CO | Mar 26, 2021 | News for Colorado
Did psychological treatment in the form of anger management fail to prevent another mass shooting? Ahmad Alissa, charged in the shooting deaths of 10 people in a Boulder grocery store on March 22, received psychological anger management as part of his sentence of...
by CCHR CO | Feb 18, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Two Colorado psychiatrists had their licenses put on five years’ probation by the Colorado Medical Board for unprofessional conduct under the state Medical Practice Act. The disciplinary action taken against psychiatrist Thomas William Starkey, Jr., of Denver, is the...
by CCHR CO | Jan 26, 2021 | News for Colorado
A former counselor at the Warner House facility of Mental Health Partners, a community mental health clinic in Boulder, was arrested and charged with sexually assaulting a patient, and police are looking for other victims. Jose Yepes, 48, was employed as a “milieu...
by CCHR CO | Jan 12, 2021 | General News, News for Colorado
Police officers arriving at a Colorado Springs psychiatric facility Saturday night in response to a report of juvenile runaways were asked by staff to help them gain control of the facility from “rioting” patients who were “overtaking” them. Officers were initially...
