opioids
Six RVs to help rural Colorado’s opioid addiction are coming to a parking lot near you
Three of the vehicles have already begun visiting rural towns where there is no access to medication-assisted treatment for heroin or prescription opioids.
Top Stories
A decade into the opioid crisis, Colorado hospitals have changed the way they treat opioid-exposed babies. And it’s helping.
By Jennifer Brown Health Primary category in which blog post is published
Colorado could soon get a lot of money from opioid settlements. But where should those dollars go?
By John Ingold Health Primary category in which blog post is published
Judge: Purdue workers should get bonuses, but maybe not CEO being sued by Colorado and other states
By The Associated Press Health Primary category in which blog post is published
Bankruptcy judge considers $1.3 million bonus for Purdue Pharma CEO being sued by Colorado
By The Associated Press Crime and Courts Primary category in which blog post is published
For months Colorado has quietly been in talks for another multibillion-dollar opioid settlement
Colorado is part of a $48 billion national opioid settlement framework between state and local governments and pharmaceutical companies Cardinal Health, McKesson, AmerisourceBergen, Johnson & Johnson and Teva
Nicolais: Some sun in the dark clouds of the opioid epidemic
Government programs and healthcare innovators, including many in Colorado, have begun introducing potential solutions to combat the myriad of problems created by opioid misuse
Opinion
Colorado woman gets prison for fatal heroin sale after U.S. attorney vows to treat overdose deaths as homicides
Kayla Pagano of Westminster learned her sentence Wednesday in Denver in the death of an unidentified woman in May 2018
Supervised injection site supporters aren’t ready to give up on the conversation in Colorado
Former Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, leader of the push nationally, visited Denver this week after a victory in federal court
Colorado, other states say OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma should not pay bonuses
Purdue has said it needs to make bonus payments to keep employees and maintain operations at a time of high turnover
Colorado officials created greeting cards to destigmatize the opioid epidemic. They didn’t order nearly enough.
The state made almost 10,000 cards with money from a federal grant but it took only four days for them to go out of stock
The Democratic agenda came with a big price tag. Now Colorado budget writers worry about paying the bill.
The rising costs of Gov. Jared Polis’ full-day kindergarten program is part of an estimated $100 million in additional costs lawmakers will need to cover
