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Lack of child care prevents moms from getting drug treatment in Colorado. Here comes “RV Honey.”
The first-of-its-kind program will send RVs renovated as child care classrooms to drug and mental health centers in Denver and the San Luis Valley.
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Luck and privilege let me dodge HIV in Denver. But viruses don’t care who you are.
By Jenny-Lynn Ellis Opinion
Six RVs to help rural Colorado’s opioid addiction are coming to a parking lot near you
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado woman gets prison for fatal heroin sale after U.S. attorney vows to treat overdose deaths as homicides
By The Associated Press Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
Why it might not matter if Colorado’s attorney general doesn’t think the national opioid settlement is sufficient
Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser says a bankruptcy court could “cram” a Purdue settlement onto the state. He also says he is examining potential legal action against other opioid companies.
Colorado emergency rooms are trying something new to stem the opioid crisis: addiction treatment
An increasing number of Denver-area hospitals are offering patients medication in the emergency room to treat their dependencies in the hopes of nudging them into long-term care
AG Phil Weiser backs Philly in lawsuit over supervised-drug-use sites, even if Colorado’s effort is stalled
Weiser joined attorneys general from six other states in filing a friend-of-the-court brief in support of the Philadelphia non-profit Safehouse
Denver moves forward with plan for supervised injection site for IV-drug users
City Council's ordinance is contingent on state legislation, and flouts federal law
The opioid crisis is breaking hearts in Colorado — and that’s forcing doctors to make tough choices
As the U.S., Colorado work to address the opioid epidemic, hospitals are seeing a major increase in deadly heart infections caused by injection drug use. That’s left doctors facing difficult moral and ethical decisions.
