Recovery Resources

After careful consideration, the University has made the difficult decision to close the CRP at the end of the 2024–2025 academic year.
 
We understand this news may be disappointing, and we want to assure you that your well-being remains our top priority. We are deeply grateful for the community you’ve built and the strength and support you’ve shown one another. The CRP has played a vital role in many students’ journeys, and we honor that legacy.
 
 

HCC and wider University supports

  • HCC Counseling Services has an Alcohol & Other Drugs (AOD) specialist on staff.
  • HCC Thrive Health Promotion has a prevention and education coordinator focused on AOD, offering a range of events, workshops and resources including safer socializing, mocktails, and Narcan supplies.
  • HCC Medical Services is general primary care clinic, and so does not offer medication-assisted recovery (MAR), medically-assisted treatment (MAT) services, intensive outpatient programs, detox, or inpatient care; but can provide referrals to community providers.
  • DU Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP), like many insurances plans, covers some treatment and recovery services. Check with your Plan for details.
  • Most campus general event and registered student organization (RSO) events are alcohol-free.
  • All DU Housing & Residential Education (HRE) housing is drug-free, and limits alcohol to spaces where all residents/guests are 21+.
    • Additionally, students can be clear with room/suite-mate groups on their desire for and degree of sober living.

 

Nearby support meetings/communities/programs

FREE Recovery Community located at Evans Ave & Lafayette (near Safeway).

The Phoenix: A gym-based national network of sober events and community, including locally.

 

Recovery Support Meetings (12 step and non-12 Step)

Cocaine Anonymous Colorado: Fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other through group meetings and individual sponsorship.

Colorado Al-Anon/Alateen Inc: Helps friends and families of alcoholics recover from the effects of living with the problem drinking of a relative or friend. 

Denver Area Central Committee of Alcoholics Anonymous: Fellowship of people who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other through group meetings and individual sponsorship.

Eating Disorder Anonymous

LifeRing: People who support one another in living free of alcohol and other non-medically indicated addictive drugs through an alternative to 12-Step programs. (secular)

Marijuana Anonymous: A 12-Step oriented support model.

Nar-Anon Family Support Groups : 12-Step support meetings offered to relatives and friends who are concerned about the addiction or drug problem of another.

Nicotine Anonymous: 12-Step fellowship of people helping each other live nicotine-free lives.

Secular Organizations for Sobriety: An alternative recovery method for those struggling with alcohol and/or drugs who are uncomfortable with the spiritual content of widely available 12-Step programs.

Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous: a 12-Step, 12-Tradition oriented fellowship, for those with a desire to stop living out a pattern of sex and love addiction.

Shambhala Center of Denver: The Heart of Recovery meeting is an open group for those interested in relating meditation practice to addiction recovery.

SMART Recovery®: Helps people recover from all types of addiction and addictive behaviors.

The Phoenix: A sober active community that promotes recovery through community-building and physical fitness. They offer free fitness classes, outings and support groups.

White Bison: A Native American-operated nonprofit dedicated to creating and sustaining a grassroots Wellbriety Movement – providing culturally-based healing to the next generations of Indigenous People. Colorado Circles: www.wellbriety.com/circles.html

Young People in Recovery (YPR): Provide training and networks all individuals, families and communities working to recover and maximize their full potential.

 

Counseling, Medical, and Detox Services

www.psychologytoday.com/us/treatment-rehab/co/denver-county?category=12-step-program

CeDAR: Offers detox, inpatient and outpatient substance use treatment.                                                         

Centennial Peaks Hospital: Offering medical detox, partial hospitalization and outpatient substance use services. 

Center for Detox Treatment at Community Reach Center: Social detox treatment referral offered to residents of Adams and Broomfield Counties. 

Colorado Wellness Recovery: An informational and treatment-finding resource focusing primarily on Colorado-based agencies and organizations.

Denver Health CARES: Provides social detox and residential treatment and accepts patients with no insurance.

Denver Indian Health & Family Services’ Behavioral Health: Individual outpatient mental health and substance use counseling, including referral services and residential treatment options.

Denver Springs: Offering medical detox, partial hospitalization and outpatient services for both adolescents and adults.

Eating Disorder Foundation, locally based

Harm Reduction Action Center: promotes public health by ensuring that people who inject drugs are educated and equipped with the tools to reduce the spread of communicable diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis C and to eliminate the proliferation of fatal overdoses.

Jefferson Center’s Crisis and Recovery Center: Social detox, crisis intervention, and referrals to outpatient substance use and mental health services.

LGBTQ+ Colorado (The Center) wellness resources directory

Lutheran West Pines: Offers medical detox, inpatient and outpatient substance use treatment.

Mountain Springs Recovery: Offers medical detox, residential and Intensive Outpatient (IOP) levels of care.

Porter Hospital’s Chemical Dependency Program: Provides substance use intensive outpatient treatment.      

Sandstone Care: Continuum of care site offering detox, residential, PHP and IOP levels of care for young adults.

Valley Hope: Offers medical detox, residential and other outpatient treatment for a variety of substance use issues. 

 

National Resources

National Institute on Drug Abuse: A national organization providing resources, information, research and free resources on different substances of use.

Never Use Alone: NUA’s all volunteer staff have lived experience with substance use disorders. When you call, these are the people you will be speaking with. 1-800-484-3731

Start Your Recovery: Online resource offering people who are dealing with substance use issues a single source of reputable, objective information about signs, symptoms, conditions, treatment options, and resources.

Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): A national organization providing information, resources, research and free print material around mental health and substance use issues.

  • SAMHSA – National helpline: 24-hr treatment referral and information service for individuals and families facing mental health and/or substance use disorders. Call 1-800-662-4357, visit the online treatment locator, or text your ZIP code to 435748 to find help near you.

 

The University does not endorse specific external services, nor is this list exhaustive. The information is as additional, starting place resources for students and supporters.