Author: SETH KLAMANN The Gazette
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Federal government to forgive $107 million in Colorado loans for Westwood College students
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More than 5,400 Coloradans who attended Westwood College will have their federal student loans forgiven, the U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday. In all, more than 79,000 students who took out federal loans to attend Westwood will have $1.5 billion in loans forgiven after the Education Department determined the college had “misled students about employment…
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Two more Colorado residents test positive for West Nile
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Two Larimer County residents have tested positive for the West Nile virus, the county’s health department said Tuesday, the first known cases of the infection there this year. The two cases are at least the sixth and seventh known human cases identified in Colorado this season, according to data provided by the state Department of…
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With focus on fentanyl, providers say Colorado must improve its treatment options
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As the executive director of a harm-reduction facility in the heart of Denver, Lisa Raville interacts with substance users constantly. Ask her about the state of inpatient treatment in the metro area, and she’ll laugh, as if you asked her about a stairway to the moon. Ask Julie Taub, an addiction medicine physician at Denver…
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Colorado schools should take ‘layered’ approach to COVID-19 prevention, state says
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Colorado health officials are again recommending schools take a “layered” approach to COVID-19 prevention, but they’re advising districts not to require mask or quarantine for in-class exposures unless there are larger outbreaks or cases are rising to high levels in the broader community. The guidance, drafted and released by the state Department of Public Health…
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Peer support brings knowing ear to substance-use treatment
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Talk to experts about substance use, and one saying gets repeated: The opposite of addiction isn’t abstinence; it’s connection. It’s connection that undermines the shame and loneliness that often perpetuate substance-use disorders. While that connection can take different forms, one of the most useful, experts say, is between current users and recovered ones. No one…
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Colorado to receive $18 million in latest opioid settlement
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Colorado will receive $18 million as part of a broader settlement with one of the largest manufacturers of prescription opioid pills, the Attorney General’s Office announced Tuesday. Mallinckrodt manufactured oxycodone, the generic for OxyContin, and one of the company’s subsidiaries distributed nearly 29 billion pills in the United States between 2006 and 2012, the AG’s…
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Colorado among best in nation for vaccinating youngest kids, but rates still lag previous waves
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COVID-19 vaccine uptake among Colorado’s youngest kids is among the highest in the country, data shows. But the state still lags behind administration for other age groups, and rates have fallen since the second week that doses were available. Six weeks into vaccinations for kids between the ages of 4 and 6 months old, Colorado…
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Can you overdose after touching or being near fentanyl? Experts give an emphatic ‘no’
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Here’s a story that keeps getting told: A first responder or member of the public comes into accidental, superficial contact with fentanyl. They have some symptoms – dizziness, tingling, difficulty breathing – and collapse, often needing an overdose antidote and a trip to the hospital. It happened in Kansas City, Kansas, in June, when a…
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Fentanyl family: Colorado’s deadly overdose siege had mom and pop roots
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THE WESTERN SLOPE – The day after Christmas 2017 was payroll at Carbondale’s Tumbleweed Dispensary, and general manager Zackaria Green slid money into envelopes. When he got to Jonathan Ellington’s, Green tucked 10 small blue pills in alongside the cash. He had purchased 12 of the tablets, stamped to look like oxycodone, earlier in the…
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Colorado’s first West Nile case of 2022 identified in Delta County
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A Delta County resident has tested positive for West Nile virus, the state said Friday afternoon, confirming Colorado’s first confirmed human case of the disease this year. The first case arrived unseasonably late in Colorado; previous state data indicates infections often begin in the spring. The virus had previously been detected here this year: Mosquitoes…
