Tag: drug overdose
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Sheriff: Summit County’s coordinated efforts reduce overdose deaths
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In Summit County, friends and bystanders are now more likely to have the tools to save someone’s life during an opioid overdose. Law enforcement, public health agencies, schools and nonprofits have rallied around a few key harm-reduction strategies to address drug use. These include wider…
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10th Circuit: Archuleta sheriff’s officials committed constitutional violation by seizing home for 8 hours
An Archuleta County sheriff’s detective who barred a man and his family from entering their home for nearly eight hours without a warrant committed a constitutional violation that required the eventual evidence of a firearm offense to be thrown out, the federal appeals court based in Denver ruled on Tuesday. Although Corban Josiah Elmore cooperated…
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Fentanyl Family: Inside Colorado’s deadly overdose siege
Starting in late 2016, Bruce Holder and his wife began smuggling thousands of fentanyl-laced pills over the border, through a quiet border station in Lukeville, Arizona. In the coming years, the family-turned-drug network would dominate the early fentanyl trade in western Colorado. Fentanyl has killed more than 1,600 Coloradans and tens of thousands of Americans…