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Journal Article

Cannabis Legalization and Cannabis-Involved Pregnancy Hospitalizations in Colorado

The primary objective of this study was to evaluate the association between presence of recreational cannabis dispensaries and prevalence of cannabis-involved pregnancy hospitalizations in Colorado.

Mar 4, 2022
Journal Article

Changes in Emergency Department Encounters for Vomiting After Cannabis Legalization in Colorado

The findings of this study suggest that cannabis legalization in Colorado is associated with an increase in annual vomiting-related health care encounters with regard to exposure to these markets.

Mar 4, 2022
Journal Article

Comparison of Hospital Claims and Poison Center Data to Evaluate Health Impact of Opioids, Cannabis and Synthetic Cannabinoids

This study demonstrates the differences in surveillance methodology for concurrent drug abuse epidemics using hospital claims and PC data. Both systems provide incomplete reports, but in combination can provide a more complete picture.

Mar 4, 2022
Journal Article

APCDs Can Provide Important Insights for Surveilling the Opioid Epidemic, With Caveats

We compared Colorado's all-payer claims databases with other state-level databases, using analyses comparing quarterly rates of opioid-involved inpatient and emergency department visits and rates of 30-day opioid fills.

Mar 4, 2022
Tool

Water Planning for the Uncertain Future

Recent climatic shifts likely will continue to affect water resources management in significant but uncertain ways. This tool provides information about decisionmaking under deep uncertainty methods—specifically, Robust Decision Making—through five case studies.

Mar 8, 2021
Journal Article

Does It Matter Who Pays for Auto Injuries?

In many states, auto insurers rather than health insurers pay for a substantial fraction of the medical care following auto crashes.

Dec 11, 2020
Report

Evaluation of a Trauma-Informed Program for Juvenile Justice-Involved Youth: The Pilot Program at Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center

In this report, the authors present the results of a process and outcome evaluation of a trauma-informed pilot program run by the Colorado Division of Youth Services (DYS) in one of their residential youth facilities.

Jan 30, 2020
Report

An Examination of Recruiting and Selection Practices to Promote Diversity for Colorado State Troopers

The Colorado State Patrol (CSP) seeks to better reflect the demographic representation of the state of Colorado. This report offers an exploratory examination of how CSP's recruiting and selection policies and procedures relate to that objective.

Feb 28, 2019
Commentary

The Future of Cannabis in the Netherlands

The Netherlands should proceed cautiously in implementing any marijuana regulations, taking into account the models devised elsewhere and remembering that once enacted the rules will be difficult to change.

Feb 1, 2017
Q&A

Your Questions About Marijuana Legalization, Answered

At least five states will vote on legal recreational marijuana this November. Drug policy expert Beau Kilmer hosted an “Ask Me Anything” session on Reddit to shed light on this and other issues.

Sep 13, 2016
Report

Using High-Performance Computing to Support Water Resource Planning

Researchers from RAND and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory used high-performance computer simulations to stress-test several water management strategies over many plausible future scenarios in near real time.

Aug 25, 2016
Report

Assessing the Role of State and Local Public Health in Outreach and Enrollment for Expanded Coverage: A Case Study on Eagle, Garfield, and Pitkin Counties, Colorado

Part of a series highlighting innovative models and best practices for local health departments' involvement in Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act outreach and enrollment, this report is a case study on three Colorado counties.

Jul 8, 2016
Report

Assessing the Role of State and Local Public Health in Outreach and Enrollment for Expanded Coverage: Seven Case Studies from Local and State Health Departments

This report summarizes seven case studies to highlight innovative models and best practices that leverage local health department efforts in outreach and health insurance enrollment activities tied to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

Jul 8, 2016
Journal Article

Coordination Within Medical Neighborhoods: Insights from the Early Experiences of Colorado Patient-Centered Medical Homes

Building a medical neighborhood--relationships among patient-centered medical homes and other providers serving a patient--requires both coordination and overarching leadership to establish continuity of care and shared accountability.

May 9, 2016
Dissertation

Changing Midstream: Providing Decision Support for Adaptive Strategies using Robust Decision Making: Applications in the Colorado River Basin

Examines how Robust Decision Making can provide decision support to natural resource planners as they create, evaluate, and deliberate about adaptive strategies.

Mar 27, 2015
Journal Article

Use of Pooled State Administrative Data for Mental Health Services Research

State mental health authorities routinely devote resources to collect data for state planning and reporting purposes. However, these data are rarely used in cross-state comparisons to inform state or federal policy development.

Feb 26, 2015
Report

Barriers to Enrollment in Health Coverage in Colorado

Explores why eligible individuals are not enrolled in health insurance coverage in Colorado and makes recommendations on how Colorado can strengthen its future outreach and enrollment efforts.

Oct 6, 2014
Commentary

Are We Entering a New Era of Cannabis Regulation?

Although international drug treaties prohibit the production, distribution, and possession of cannabis for non-medical and non-scientific purposes, several jurisdictions have implemented new laws and policies, including some that remove criminal penalties for possession of small doses of cannabis.

May 22, 2014
Commentary

The Feds' Role After Legalization

Since Colorado and Washington allow profit-maximizing firms to grow and sell marijuana, there is concern they will use advertising to promote consumption by heavy users. With help from the federal government, the states will be better positioned to head off the negative consequences associated with commercialization.

Jan 15, 2014
Project

Evaluating Robust Water Management Strategies for the Colorado River Basin

RAND worked with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and Colorado River Basin states to apply innovative robust decision methods to evaluate thousands of plausible futures on the Colorado River and develop and compare strategies to address future vulnerabilities.

Nov 5, 2013

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