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Can Denver’s mayor keep drug users out of jail? Here’s his new plan to fix a decades-old problem

Roads to Recovery program aims to divert 200 into substance, mental health treatment this year

Adam Dudley, 34, checks the message board for job advertisements at Tribe Recovery Homes in Denver on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Tribe Recovery Homes, a sober living, drug treatment and mental health treatment facility, often serves people who have recently interacted with the criminal justice system. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Adam Dudley, 34, checks the message board for job advertisements at Tribe Recovery Homes in Denver on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. Tribe Recovery Homes, a sober living, drug treatment and mental health treatment facility, often serves people who have recently interacted with the criminal justice system. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Joe Rubino - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Denver is launching Roads to Recovery, an initiative that aims to focus on getting people with acute mental health and drug use challenges into treatment, keeping them from cycling through the city's jails, emergency rooms and homeless shelters.
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