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.
Deanna Guerra asks for support for overdose prevention during International Overdose Awareness Day in front of the Harm Reduction Action Center in Denver on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2023. Guerra lost two daughters by overdose. Fatal drug overdoses in both Denver and across Colorado have declined through the first half of 2024, matching national trends and offering a ray of sunshine after the fentanyl crisis fueled years of mounting death tolls.
Final figures for this year won’t be available until the spring. But if those trends hold for the rest of 2024, it would markfrom 912 in 2016 to 1,881 in 2021, and they’ve held at high levels since. Deaths in Denver flattened in 2022 only to surge by nearly a third, to 598 deaths, in 2023,“It is encouraging to see overdose death rates dropping.
More promisingly, though, Colorado’s data showed more significant declines in fatal overdoses caused by fentanyl and opioids more broadly.
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