Tag: addiction
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New industry group seeks to raise awareness, improve addiction treatment system
Addiction rates for Americans continue to remain high and are climbing for certain substances following a spike in usage during the pandemic, but the number of people seeking help to stop abusing drugs and alcohol is abysmal in comparison, statistics show. In 2024, 48.4 million people aged 12 or older in the United States were…
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ACLU of Colorado sues City of Pueblo over prohibition on syringe exchange programs
The ACLU of Colorado has filed a lawsuit against the city of Pueblo for their ordinance prohibiting syringe exchange programs within city limits. ACLU filed the lawsuit on behalf of the Colorado Health Network and the Southern Colorado Harm Reduction Association. These two organization are non-profits who operate syringe exchange programs in Pueblo. The lawsuit claims…
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How we exposed Denver’s homeless industrial complex | Vince Bzdek
In an era when information, misinformation, disinformation, AI-created information, and down-right lies all gets tossed together in the same Mixmaster known as the internet, we journalists believe it’s important for us to occasionally show our work. To let you know who our sources were, what documents we obtained, what our reporting method looked like, and…
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Colorado Springs mother accused of negligent death of toddler is denied bond reduction
A woman charged in the negligent death of her toddler in 2022 was denied a lower bond on Thursday in El Paso County Court. Amber Comstock, 32, was arrested on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death on Jan. 5. Officers responding to a 911 call found Comstock’s 14-month old son dead at his home…
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Faces of Fentanyl: A Special Report by The Denver Gazette
Over 450 Coloradans died of fentanyl poisoning or overdoses just through August of this year, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. That number could be on the low end though, as toxicology testing and investigations sometimes take months, CDPHE statistician, Kirk Bol, says
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A litany of death: A list of homeless deaths in El Paso County
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An SUV struck Dirk Cordtz, a pedestrian, on South Nevada Avenue at East Las Vegas Street in Colorado Springs on Jan. 2, 2018. Cordtz died a day later. The Gazette File 2018: January Dirk Cordtz, 62 Homeless off and on the past couple of years,…
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A litany of death: A list of homeless deaths in El Paso County
–> 2018: January Dirk Cordtz, 62 Homeless off and on the past couple of years, he cut across Nevada Avenue a couple of blocks from the Springs Rescue Mission shelter where he had been staying. An SUV turning left pinned him to the ground. He died Jan. 3 at UCHealth Memorial Hospital Central. A former…