Tag: Addiction
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Denver to get $9 million grant to obtain drug overdose data
Denver received the first installment of roughly $9 million in grant funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention designed to obtain more data and help in the campaign to reduce overdoses throughout the city, officials said. The annual grant — the funding will last five years — comes out to $1.8 million. Officials said…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what documents we obtained, what our reporting method looked like, and…
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Denver Center will make history by staging Jake Brasch’s ‘The Reservoir’
Jake Brasch has a message for the military: “Colorado artists are on the verge of taking over the world!” (If only that were not hyperbole.) Brasch is a Denver-born playwright and floating on Cloud 99 this week with the announcement that the homegrown Denver Center Theatre Company will produce his play “The Reservoir” as part…
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Recovery Cards Project brings healing words for the holidays
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The aisles of Hallmark stores, and other holiday businesses, are lined with a staggering amount of greeting cards. From birthdays to graduations, any occasion can be met with a designed card. The global greeting card market was valued at $19.25 billion in 2022, according to…
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Denver Health officials: Words matter when discussing substance abuse
Walter Boyd has struggled with drug addiction for most of his 57 years. It wasn’t until a shelter worker during the COVID-19 pandemic connected Boyd — whose health, without medication, deteriorated while homeless — to services at Denver Health. “There’s still a lot of people on the street that need help,” said Boyd, who is…
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Colorado Democrats OK substance abuse intervention for middle, high schools
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A proposal from Colorado teenagers to offer substance abuse intervention guidelines to schools passed its final vote in the state legislature Friday. If signed into law, House Bill 1009 would create a committee tasked with developing best practices for middle and high schools to identify…
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A community adrift over the death of a young actor | John Moore
When word of young actor Rob Riney’s death began to spread last weekend, legions of helplessly numb friends and fellow artists responded in just about the only way one can when life delivers a breath-stealing kick to the sternum. They flooded social media channels with photos that told the story of a triumphant, troubled life.…
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Faces of Fentanyl: A Special Report by The Denver Gazette
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Over 450 Coloradans died of fentanyl poisoning or overdoses just through August of this year, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. That number could be on the low end though, as toxicology testing and investigations sometimes take months, CDPHE statistician, Kirk Bol, says
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Colorado on track to receive $385 million from settlements over opioid epidemic
Colorado is on track to receive roughly $385 million as part of legal settlements reached with Johnson & Johnson and three of the country’s largest drug distribution companies over their role fueling the opioid epidemic, the Colorado Attorney General’s Office said Tuesday. The sum represents Colorado’s share of the payout in a $26 billion class…
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Denver Health awarded more than $2 million to help those with methamphetamine-use disorder
Denver Health was awarded more than $2 million from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention to fund more treatment options for those with stimulant use disorders. The $2,173,000 grant will fund the Beginning Early and Assertive Treatment for Methamphetamines Use Disorder (BEAT Meth) project, a strategy to prevent stimulant-related overdoses, officials said. “Methamphetamine…