Tag: Drug Abuse
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GUEST COLUMN: A powerful cautionary tale for Pikes Peak-area families
My son, Sam, died April 3, 2021, after a 12-minute altercation with Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies during a cannabis-induced psychotic episode. If the term “cannabis-induced psychotic episode” is new or surprising to you, please read on. Someone you love’s life may depend on it. Sam was 23 and one semester away from graduating from the University of Colorado-Boulder. In high…
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COLUMN: Learn from the mistakes of legalized marijuana
By Greg Schaller Thirteen years after Colorado became one of the first two states to legalize recreational marijuana, the verdict is in: it has been a public policy failure of historic proportions. What began as a slick, well-funded campaign promising tax revenue for schools and the end of the black market has instead created new…
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Boulder County warns of deadly fentanyl powder in local illicit drug market
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Boulder County health officials on Thursday warned residents of a high-powered fentanyl powder that is making its way through the area’s illicit drug market — the results of which may be deadly. Police responded to a suspected overdose death in Boulder on Saturday, according to…
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Colorado lawmakers renew debate about sites allowing drug use under supervision
Colorado lawmakers have renewed deliberations on a proposal to allow sites for people to use drugs under supervision in order to — backers say — do it more safely and prevent overdoses. The legislature’s discussion largely mirrors the talking points of five years ago, when lawmakers last brought a bill to allow such a center…
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Denver officials, police stress dangers of fentanyl abuse
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Nearly one week after five people died of an apparent fentanyl overdoes in Adams County, the City of Denver stressed the dangers of fentanyl abuse. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is up to 50 times more powerful than heroin and 100 times strong than morphine. Between May 2020 and April 2021, the number of…
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Man charged with murder for fentanyl overdose death of 16-year-old Lakewood girl
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Jorge Alexander Che-Quiab has been charged with the murder of a 16-year-old girl from Lakewood who was killed by a fentanyl overdose in Aurora on Aug. 7. Che-Quiab, 25, has been charged with 13 counts, including first-degree murder with extreme indifference, first-degree felony murder, sexual assault, sexual assault of a child and two counts of…
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Denver police to collect unwanted medicine, vaping devices in drop off event
The Denver Police Department will collect people’s unwanted and unused medication Saturday for National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. In the annual event, police collect and ensure the environmentally-safe disposal of prescription medicines to reduce the likelihood of drug misuse or abuse. In 2018, 9.9 million people in the U.S. misused prescription drugs, according to the…