As a justice program coordinator, Kevin Kohlbrenner knows he could have easily been in the shoes of his current clients booked into Routt County Jail on drug charges. “If I wouldn’t have gotten clean, I.
In honor of Overdose Awareness Week, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Jeremy Dubin at Front Range Clinic, Colorado's largest network of outpatient treatment centers, is highlighting the clinic’s life-saving approach to treatment that prioritizes MAT, along with harm-reduction care that is “high access, low barrier.”
As director of the Moffat County Public Health department for three years, Registered Nurse Becky Copeland fully understands, “We got our work cut out for us.” Copeland and her three energetic staff members are counting.
When Colorado lawmakers negotiated last year's sweeping fentanyl bill, they spent days debating the measure's new and deeply controversial criminal penalties for drug possession. The bill was amended more than 50 times in four weeks. Studies were added, prevention strategies tweaked, money for overdose antidotes allocated.