CORRECTION: It was incorrectly reported that Adam Quisenberry took third place in singles horseshoes at the 55th Annual Mountain Fair. Medicaid cutsColorado’s medicaid cuts are shortchanging addiction recovery. Recent cost-containment measures targeting Health First Colorado (Colorado Medicaid) are gutting addiction treatment services precisely when our communities need them most. But perhaps most damaging is what is happening behind closed doors to residential treatment programs. Short-circuiting residential treatment and burning out providers with administrative red tape doesn’t save Colorado money — it simply pushes those costs onto emergency rooms, county jails and grieving families.