🌄 Naloxone is Saving Lives in Yampa Valley, Colorado! ❤️ ✅ Over the past 4 years, thousands of free naloxone kits (Narcan) have been distributed across the Yampa Valley — getting into the hands of first responders, nonprofits, and everyday citizens. 🚑 Local EMS teams and

🗓 From ~31,000 deaths in 2021 to ~16,700 in 2024, saving around 15,000 lives annually. Driving factors: 🛡️ Expanded naloxone distribution & harm‑reduction strategies 🚑 Broader access to treatment and recovery services 🧪 Slower overdose rates among teens and college‑age

💬 Denmark Launches National Campaign to Support Parents in Talking to Teens About Opioids 🎯 47% of parents in Copenhagen say they don’t feel confident discussing opioids with their kids — this campaign aims to change that. 🧩 New resources offer expert advice, teen

💔 From Tragedy to Testimony: A Reno Family Fights for Opioid Alternatives in Nevada 💊 👩‍⚕️ Lisa Mead, CEO of Reno Orthopedic Clinic, and her son, Gerad Davis, shared their emotional journey with the Nevada Legislature to support Senate Bill 337, which would expand insurance

💛 Naloxone, Education & Access Are Reversing Colorado’s Opioid Crisis 📉 Colorado saw a 13.9% drop in fatal overdoses from 2023 to 2024—largely due to expanded harm reduction efforts. ⏱️ With just six minutes before brain damage can occur during an overdose, having naloxone

📱💥 New SoCoYoGo App Tackles Opioid Risk Through Youth Empowerment in Southern Colorado! The Southeast Colorado Opioid Region (SECOR) just launched SoCoYoGo, a youth-focused app that’s redefining prevention through education, engagement, and rewards. 💡🌶️ 🧠 Funded by opioid

🚨 Good news from Colorado! More workplaces are becoming recovery-friendly, and it's changing lives. Here's how: ✅ Flexible Schedules ⏰ – Employers are allowing time for treatment, therapy, and support groups. ✅ Peer Support Programs 👥 – Employees in recovery are helping

🚨 Synthetic opioids are hiding behind the name “kratom” — and it’s putting lives at risk. 🚨 Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield is sounding the alarm: A dangerous lab-made compound, 7-hydroxymitragynine, is being added to kratom products at levels up to 150x higher than

🎉 Keep the Party Safe = Lives Saved A Colorado campaign is working — and saving lives in the fight against Colorado's opioid crisis👇 - 8,500+ doses of Narcan distributed - 1,800+ fentanyl test strips handed out - 50+ events across the state - Over a dozen overdoses reversed

🖊️ Handy New Tool Could Help Detect Opioids — Right From the Skin Researchers have developed a pen-like device that can screen for opioids non-invasively — offering a faster, easier alternative to blood or urine tests. 🚨 Potential Game-Changer: - This tool could help prevent

🚑 Colorado AG Awards $3 Million to Keep Naloxone Free & Accessible 💵 Attorney General Phil Weiser has committed $3 million in opioid settlement funds to expand the state’s Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund. 📦 This will supply an estimated 91,000 intranasal naloxone kits through

💔 Female veterans, veterans from racial and ethnic minority groups at higher risk of dying from opioid overdose. Key findings from BU & VA researchers: 📈 61% increase in overdose deaths among male vets (2010–2019) 👩‍✈️ Female veterans now face even higher risk 🧑🏾‍🦱 Overdose deaths

🎓💊 University of Connecticut students are taking action in the fight against the opioid crisis — one health district at a time. Through the Adopt a Health District program, interns are: 🔹 Hosting Narcan trainings 🔹 Educating seniors on med safety 🔹 Promoting safe pill

🚨 Denver rolls out lifesaving Naloxone vending machines! In just 50 days since the pilot launch at Stout Street Health Center, Denver’s vending machines have dispensed over 1,100 free Narcan kits—more than 2,000 total citywide—helping to reverse opioid overdoses and save lives.

💡 Naloxone, education, and access have turned the tide in Colorado’s opioid crisis, experts say. - Naloxone (Narcan) made it possible for bystanders to save lives within the critical six-minute overdose window. - Public education & reduced stigma empowered communities—from

📉 Opioid-related deaths are down in Colorado, though the state still faced a staggering $13 billion economic toll in 2024 alone. New report from Common Sense Institute Colorado highlights key findings: ⚰️ Fentanyl-related deaths fell 32.4% in CO (1,184 → 801), but still above

📰➡️💊 From Headlines to Lifelines In Sonoma County, the nonprofit Micah’s Hugs is giving old newspaper boxes a powerful new purpose — distributing free Narcan and fentanyl test strips to help save lives. 📦 What was once used to deliver news is now delivering second chances.

🎓➡️💊➡️🙏 From Honor Roll to Heroin — and Back Again. Michael Murdocco, 41, from Staten Island, once made the honor roll in high school. Later, he was prescribed 240 oxycodone pills per month by a doctor who was later convicted in a multimillion-dollar opioid ring. That legal

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Health, Not Handcuffs, Are the Path to Ending #Opioid Crisis From Punishment to Progress, overdose deaths dropped 27% last year — a hopeful sign in the fight against the opioid crisis. But real progress won’t come from handcuffs. It comes from health-centered solutions: 💉