On Thursday, April 18, Southwest Opioid Response District (SWORD) Project Coordinator Claire West spoke to the Pagosa Springs Town Council, announcing the launch of the SWORD grant application for 2024.
Findings released on opioid and substance use disorder treatment in southwest Colorado pagosasun.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pagosasun.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
A presentation delivered this week to members of the SouthWest Opioid Response District council indicated that it would be possible to offer inpatient substance use treatment at the former Robert E. D...
The findings from a series of community meetings to discuss substance use in the Pine River Valley reveal that the isolation of living in a rural community is both a contributing factor to substance u...
It’s a common, heart-wrenching dilemma. Southwest residents are forced to look far away for inpatient substance use treatment. Stories of locals –Jessica Newby, Kelly DiGiacomo, Tate Reaves, Alexys Vi...
For most, the journey to inpatient substance use treatment is protracted and arduous.
After Jessica Newby’s doctors cut off her opioid painkiller prescription and she turned to heroin, she and her si...
Durango sits perched at the convergence of two biomes, one a desert parched for resources, the other a craggy set of verdant mountains offering abundance on their slopes.
Although the region is ripe w...
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The 2023 federal budget, a $1.7 trillion spending bill currently pending the President’s signature, will fulfill a request from La Plata County on the Southwest Opioid Response District’s behalf for s...
A large part of our work is sorting through election noise and getting to the truth. Here’s what we confirmed. Possessing or using fentanyl is absolutely a crime. Always has been. There was never a vo...