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Big Mental Health Changes in 2026 (And Why You Should Care)
January 2026 quietly changed mental health and addiction care in a big way. New federal and Colorado rules are tightening insurance loopholes, protecting treatment access, and raising the stakes for funding. Here is what changed, why it matters, and how it impacts real people in recovery.
The "Gear Math" of Sobriety: Converting Hangovers into HardwarE
I stood in the Sun & Ski Sports store in Salt Lake City last Tuesday, staring at a pair of Cobra ice tools. They were beautiful—carbon fiber shafts, aggressive curve, lethal and elegant all at once.
They were also $400 a piece.
I ran the numbers. My monthly "entertainment" budget used to be roughly $1,200. Those ice tools I just denied myself? That was three weeks of drinking.
Wow. #Priorities
The Convenient Villain: Breaking the "Identified Patient" Trap
You become the distraction. As long as you are the disaster, Mom does not have to look at her depression. As long as you are the "wild one" then Dad does not have to look at his own rage. You are the glue keeping their false reality together.
Nitazenes Warning: 9 Powerful Facts & Proven Community Steps to Save Lives
The thing about storms is they never really end… They just change shape.
But the story isn’t all loss. The other half of this work… The part people don’t always see…
Is what happens quietly between the crises.
The Great Decline: Unpacking the Inevitable Fall of Alcohol Culture
Something is happening. It’s a groundswell, a seismic shift in the tectonic plates of our culture that’s been a long, long time coming. You can feel it in the air, you can see it in the choices people are making, and now, the hard data is screaming it from the mountaintops. The once-unquestioned reign of alcohol is beginning to crumble, and frankly, it’s about damn time.
Shattered Families, Unshaken RESOLVE
Let me be unmistakably clear: The inhumanity unfolding before us now is as destructive, merciless, and devastating as the worst addiction I’ve ever encountered. Lives are shattered. Hearts are breaking. Families are devastated. This is an addiction to cruelty—a systemic violence that runs on fear and destroys hope with each raid, each arrest, each child’s cry in the night.