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Denver is seeing an all-time high number of overdoses. Advocates say a lot of these outdoor deaths, and overdoses, come from within the homeless community.

The Harm Reduction Action Center leads a weekly cleanup around Capitol Hill and the Golden Triangle using homeless residents they've provided services to.

The first of three bills attempting to deal once again with fentanyl won approval from a House panel on Tuesday.

If passed, House Bill 1202 would give Colorado cities the right to open the centers, it wouldn't mandate them. The centers would not provide drugs, but would give users sterile needles and fentanyl test strips.

State lawmakers introduced HB23-1202, which would allow cities to open safe injection sites for drug users.

Denvers City and County Building was bathed in purple light Tuesday night and into Wednesday to acknowledge Overdose Awareness Day and the grim fact that, despite decades of effort, the

Colorado is on track to surpass its record-breaking overdose death toll from last year, state data shows, with fentanyl continuing to play a larger and more deadly role in the

Hospitals give out doses of antidote to fight opioid crisis The project already has 47 hospitals committed to dispensing the overdose antidote to at-risk patients as they are discharged from the emergency department. Author: Associated Press Updated: 9:54 AM CDT May 8, 2021 When doctors write a prescription for the life-saving antidote to an opioid overdose, patients only bother to fill them about 5% of the time.  But what if hospital physicians simply handed a ...

When doctors write a prescription for the life-saving antidote to an opioid overdose, patients only bother to fill them about 5% of the time.

The project has 47 hospitals committed to dispensing the overdose antidote to at-risk patients already, as they're discharged emergency rooms.