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Colorado is due nearly $800 million in national opioid settlements. The challenge? How to spend it most effectively.

The money, coming over next 17 years, is being divvied up among multi-county regions and local municipalities

Vehicle Support Technician Paul Grimes stocks ambulances with supplies, including the livesaving opioid overdose medication naloxone, often known by the brand name Narcan, at Denver Health in Denver on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The Naloxone Project is using its share of opioid settlement money to fund training for first responders, including Denver Health paramedics, and to distribute the overdose reversal drug. Medics are trained to give out the medication to at-risk people they encounter on their calls. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Vehicle Support Technician Paul Grimes stocks ambulances with supplies, including the livesaving opioid overdose medication naloxone, often known by the brand name Narcan, at Denver Health in Denver on Thursday, July 11, 2024. The Naloxone Project is using its share of opioid settlement money to fund training for first responders, including Denver Health paramedics, and to distribute the overdose reversal drug. Medics are trained to give out the medication to at-risk people they encounter on their calls. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - MARCH 7: Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
By | mwingerter@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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Colorado communities have dozens of options to spend the opioid settlement money, and while the sums can be significant, they won’t cover every possibility, even in cities receiving millions.
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