Seth Klamann is a statehouse reporter at the Denver Post, covering policy, state government and the legislature. He previously worked for the Gazette, the Casper Star-Tribune and the Omaha World-Herald. He's a graduate of the University of Missouri and a proud Kansas City native.
Z Williams of Bread & Roses Legal Center shares the memories of family and friends who died from drug overdoses with advocates during International Overdose Awareness Day in front of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver on Thursday, August 31, 2023. Williams was jogging through Cheeseman Park this summer and witnessed someone overdosing. is Rep. Elisabeth Epps’ second attempt to allow what advocates call safe-use sites to open in Denver and other cities that allow them.
That’s a particularly acute concern as fentanyl, the potent synthetic opioid, has come to dominate the drug market here and across the country. Fentanyl-related overdoses in Denver jumped nearly 60% in 2023 after plateauing the year before, “And the one requirement that every Coloradan has to have to be eligible for any sort of recovery support … is that you have to be alive.”
Critics, including some moderate Democrats and all Republicans, have argued that safe-use sites enable drug use, and they’ve raised fears about increasing crime in the neighborhoods surrounding any proposed site., which, among other things, would allow approved organizations to distribute smoking kits and would ensure that drug users couldn’t be punished for possessing that equipment.
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