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Taking notes and doing research are typical in a classroom. However, what s unique about this high school goes beyond the education. You shouldn t have to drop out of school just to get away from drugs and just to be able to get clean and sober, said Melissa Mouton, the Executive Director of 5280 High School.5280 is a recovery high school in Denver, Colorado. Mouton tells Scripps News it s one of the fewer than 50 schools in the country focused on supporting personal lives, mental health, and substance use issues, as well as education. Treatment is chea
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Mohamad is most at home in the kitchen. The smell of homemade recipes taking him back to the best parts of his childhood. A childhood cut short by violence and unrest in his home country, Syria. When I walked down the street, I was scared to get a bomb in my head, said the 24-year-old man. Even walking from the school to your a
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