Tag: Colorado Fentanyl
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Douglas County awards grants to opioid recovery organizations
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Douglas County officials said addressing opioid addiction is a priority, lamenting the issue as a crisis while awarding grant dollars to local recovery organizations last week. Douglas County commissioners approved $670,000 in funding for two local recovery and rehabilitation organizations. The grants were recommended by…
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Study: Fentanyl-related deaths cost Colorado estimated $16 billion last year
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save It only takes 2 milligrams of fentanyl to be fatal. A record 425.6 kilograms of fentanyl — enough to kill the state’s population between 16* and 26 times over, depending on the purity of the drugs — was seized in Colorado in 2023 by the Drug…
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EDITORIAL: Idiotic fentanyl law kills another baby
The highest-ranking members of The Gazette’s Fentanyl Hall of Shame own much of the blame for the latest-known fentanyl death of a baby. Topping the Fentanyl Hall of Shame is Republican Rep. Shane Sandridge, R-Colorado Springs. He takes sole “credit” for writing a 2019 bill that made him a darling of the left. The resulting…