Tag: Naloxone
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AG’s Office announces $3 million grant from opioid settlements to maintain naloxone access statewide
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Attorney General Phil Weiser announced a $3 million grant from Colorado’s opioid settlement funds will be used to provide free naloxone to organizations statewide. The distribution of naloxone, a medication used to reverse opioid overdose, is meant to help save lives by increasing access to…
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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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Underground Music Showcase trains staff for potential fentanyl overdoses
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Though the Underground Music Showcase (UMS) is set to bring three fun-filled days of live music to the South Broadway neighborhood, the event organizers know that potential drug overdoses are always a possibility. “Obviously, we do not permit drugs on our premises, but we’re also…
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Colorado Attorney General awards $4 million to opioid crisis programs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save One thousand, one-hundred and sixty. That’s how many people died of opioid overdoses in Colorado in 2022 — a nearly 54% uptick from the 620 deaths in 2019, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. As part of the efforts to combat the…
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Colorado Opioid Abatement Council announces $2 million in infrastructure grants
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Opioid Abatement Council this week approved roughly $2 million in infrastructure grants to six organizations helping combat the opioid crisis, which has killed more than 8,500 Coloradans over the past two decades. These grants are the first awarded from the statewide infrastructure share,…
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Denver Public Schools provide naloxone to nurses
Denver Public Schools will provide naloxone, a drug that reverses opioid overdoses, to its middle and high schools starting Monday. School nurses will have naloxone available as an added safety measure similarly to the way schools have Epipens and fire extinguishers, said Scott Pribble, a Denver Public Schools spokesperson. Pribble said the process of training…
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Doctors cite growing importance of free opioid overdose antidote in hospital labor and delivery departments
With fentanyl leading to increased overdose deaths across Colorado, Naloxone and other drugs designed to reverse such overdoses are becoming essential to have on hand, said Dr. Don Stader, an addiction specialist and emergency physician at Swedish Medical Center. Naloxone should be available to people with substance use disorders just as epinephrine is available to…
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LIVE UPDATES: Senate debates fentanyl bill
LATEST: Senate gives House Bill 1326, on fentanyl, preliminary approval 6:15 p.m. – Senate members minutes ago gave preliminary to the sweeping legislation policymakers hope would confront Colorado’s fentanyl crisis. Procedurally, once a bill has gone through second reading debate, there’s one more piece of business to be conducted – what’s known as approval of a…
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Senate panel adds money, minor tweaks to fentanyl bill ahead of chamber’s floor debate
The bill seeking to address the state’s fentanyl crisis received some money and clean-up work during a Wednesday morning Senate Appropriations Committee meeting. Eleven of the 12 amendments offered to change House Bill 1326 were adopted by the appropriations committee, which then voted, 6-1, to send it to the Senate floor for debate. That will take place…