opioids
Rocky Mountain Poison Center’s director retiring after 3 decades
Dr. Richard Dart and the Rocky Mountain Poison Center have been leaders in expanding how...
How a successful Colorado startup turned into a nearly $1 billion health care fraud scheme
Zynex served as a Colorado startup success story 鈥� a one-man operation turned public company...
Coloradans snap up over-the-counter naloxone while hospitals offer the overdose-reversal drug to more patients
Most hospitals already offer naloxone to anyone treated for an opioid overdose, but two hospitals...
Colorado DEA agents seized 665,000 fentanyl pills and 2.41 kilograms of powder in October operation
Colorado agents alone seized more than 665,000 potentially deadly pills and 2.41 kilograms of fentanyl...
US appeals court overturns West Virginia landmark opioid lawsuit decision
Thousands of state and local governments have sued over the toll of opioids.
Colorado will give $3 million grant to boost local naloxone supply as new data show drop in overdose deaths
Colorado will use $3 million from the state's opioid settlement fund to provide the overdose-reversal...
Colorado Rep. Brittany Pettersen asks RFK Jr. to maintain funding for naloxone, invokes mom’s opioid battle
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr....
Colorado law that made possession of small amounts of fentanyl a felony didn’t reduce overdose deaths, study finds
House Bill 1326, which passed in 2022, lowered the threshold for felony charges to one...
Purdue Pharma and owners to pay $7.4 billion in settlement to lawsuits over the toll of OxyContin
The Sacklers agreed to pay up to $6.5 billion, Purdue to pay $900 million, for...
Fatal drug overdoses in Denver and across Colorado show declines through first half of 2024
Experts and health officials caution the data is preliminary and only covers the first six...