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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.
Every jail in Colorado is now required to provide the gold-standard opioid treatment to inmates who qualify, a major shift intended to help the state blunt the overdose crisis fueled by fentanyl.