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What do you do with $300? Colorado’s small towns figure out how to use opioid settlement funds.

“We have to think about what can we do thatap meaningful and impactful with only a few hundred dollars.”

High Rockies Harm Reduction peer support specialist Josie Cruz reaches for fentanyl test strips for a participant under a canopy tent set up in the parking lot in front of the Pitkin County Health and Human Services building in Aspen on Thursday, July 11, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
High Rockies Harm Reduction peer support specialist Josie Cruz reaches for fentanyl test strips for a participant under a canopy tent set up in the parking lot in front of the Pitkin County Health and Human Services building in Aspen on Thursday, July 11, 2024. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
DENVER, CO - MARCH 7:  Meg Wingerter - Staff portraits at the Denver Post studio.  (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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Crested Butte could have bought nine doses of the overdose reversal drug naloxone with the money the town has received so far from Colorado’s opioid settlement funds — but that might not have been enough to cover the sales tax, too.
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