Tag: Opioid Epidemic
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EDITORIAL: Let Colorado’s voters fight fentanyl if lawmakers won’t
A state-record-breaking Drug Enforcement Administration fentanyl seizure reported by the Gazette Monday illustrates why more action is needed — including a pending ballot measure — to fight the fatal and far-reaching opioid endemic. The flooding of fentanyl across Colorado remains so rampant, a Douglas County man happened across nearly 2 million fentanyl pills after purchasing…
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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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Commerce City fentanyl deaths believed to be the most lethal single such event in U.S.
The shocking fentanyl overdose deaths of five young people in a Commerce City apartment last weekend marked an ugly milestone for Colorado: It was the country’s largest single fentanyl overdose event the Drug Enforcement Administration believes it has seen in one place at one time. “This event shook the conscience of all of us,” said…
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Survey: Despite rising deaths, nearly half of Colorado voters say opioid crisis is less important
In Colorado, 43% of voters say combating the opioid crisis has become a lower priority for them since the COVID-19 pandemic began, according to a survey released Wednesday by Rehab.com. Colorado’s indifference towards opioids was higher than the national average of 38%. Though public interest has decreased, the opioid epidemic has increased in severity during…