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$400 million in long-awaited opioid settlement money will begin to go out to Colorado communities by late summer

Fentanyl overdose deaths in the state climbed to 912 in 2021 — up from 540 the year before

Juston Cooper, deputy director of Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, speaks during a rally on the west steps of the state Capitol in Denver in April. Attendees were resisting a proposed bill that would tighten penalties for fentanyl possession.  (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
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Juston Cooper, deputy director of Colorado Criminal Justice Reform Coalition, speaks during a rally on the west steps of the state Capitol in Denver in April. Attendees were resisting a proposed bill that would tighten penalties for fentanyl possession. (Photo by Helen H. Richardson/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - OCTOBER 2:  Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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The first dollars of a years-long, multi-state legal settlement designed to punish pain pill manufacturers and distributors for their role in the nation's lethal opioid addiction scourge will start flowing into hard-hit Colorado communities before summer's end.
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