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Following an emotional debate, the Colorado House passed a bill aimed at addressing the fentanyl overdose crisis.

Across Colorado, a silent killer has become increasingly responsible for a number of overdose deaths. Between 2015 and 2021, fentanyl’s death toll in Colorado has increased at a faster rate than all other states in…

To combat fentanyl overdose deaths, state lawmakers want to increase penalties for drug dealers while investing in substance use treatment.

Colorado lawmakers unveiled a bill Thursday that would reduce the amount of fentanyl-laced drugs a dealer would need to possess in order to face harsh felony charges and aims to widely increase access to fentanyl strips, Narcan and services for people who suffer from addiction.

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

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Two more Summit County residents have died from COVID-19, according to a news release from Summit County Public Health. The deaths occurred on Feb. 5 and 6. There have now been a total of at least six deaths in Summit County from COVID-19, according to Summit Daily News records. There are discrepancies between the state and county’s death statistics and previous reporting by the Summit Daily. The county’s website currently lists seven total deaths among COVID-19 cases, however the Summit D...

“What’s there to live for? Why am I here?” That’s what one 86-year-old man living alone in Thornton recently told Jayla Sanchez-Warren, who leads a regional agency on aging, as she tried to help him get vaccinated against COVID-19. “He was struggling to get a vaccine and was frustrated. His wife had died, I think three years ago. He didn’t have family in the area,” she said. “He was feeling this malaise.” She said his despair is a typical symptom of a “failure to thrive,” ...

Hart Van Denburg/CPR News Coloradans 65 and older are now receiving vaccine shots after suffering the worst of both direct, and indirect, effects from COVID-19. In 2020, COVID-19 ravaged the states nursing homes, forcing an end to visitation by family and friends and lockdowns of residents. That in turn appears to have contributed to a hidden toll from the disease for some Colorado seniors. Starvation. As many as 100 more seniors than expected, most of them in nursing homes, essentially stopped...

COVID directly caused 3,588 deaths in Colorado last year — less than a quarter of some of the worst-case scenarios proffered by the states coronavirus modeling team last fall, according