As advocates and legislators fight the fentanyl crisis, latest numbers show the drug continues to contribute to more than half of all drug overdoses in Colorado.
The organization will receive $100,000 per year for at least two years from the Opioid Abatement Council, with opportunities to renew the grant for an 18-year period of funding.
For the first time in three years, the number of fentanyl-involved overdose deaths in the state plateaued, signaling hope for families and government agencies that Coloradans are becoming keenly aware of the drug’s deadly scope. Numbers obtained by The Denver Gazette from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment show that 920 people in the state died from fentanyl poisoning in 2022, up .09% from the 2021 when 912 people lost their lives.