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The Boulder Police Dept. is investigating after several college students were brought to the hospital after overdosing at a fraternity. Police believe they may have taken tainted drugs. -
Colorado is in the process of creating a new psychedelic therapy industry. About two years ago, voters opted to decriminalize the personal use of the drug psilocybin, also known as magic mushrooms. Now the state is working on licensing 鈥渉ealing centers鈥� where people can legally consume psilocybin in a supervised setting. According to John Herrick of the Boulder Reporting Lab, Boulder officials are beginning to think about certain restrictions for these centers in the city. -
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Colorado may rank at the top with regard to physical fitness. But when it comes to mental health, Coloradans are struggling. On today鈥檚 In The NoCo we discuss how a culture of drug and alcohol use in mountain resort communities can negatively affect the mental health of those who live and work there. -
In Part 1 of The Longevity Project, Summit County's tourist-driven economy drives substance use rates above state and national averages, investigation reveals. -
When Denver Health wanted to open an inpatient opioid detox unit specifically for teens, doctors there searched high and low for a model to copy. They didn鈥檛 find one. -
As communities move to decriminalize psychedelics, Denver is hosting a massive conference for those who want to learn more. -
Research participants in Fort Collins are taking LSD as part of a study on how the psychedelic drug could impact anxiety. The experiment is part of a much larger push to understand how different psychedelics could be used to treat mental health conditions. -
A Colorado bill to allow so-called safe-injection sites 鈥� where people can use illicit drugs under the supervision of trained staff who can reverse an overdose 鈥� was killed in committee Wednesday evening by Democrats. -
The recovery home will be an incremental step toward addressing methamphetamine addiction in Boulder County. In 2020, the county estimated 535 people who passed through the Boulder County Jail were addicted to methamphetamine, according to its grant proposal. (There are currently 412 people incarcerated or detained in the jail, according to state data.) -
Early testing at Boulder main library shows extent of meth contamination
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!["Part of my job [as a barback] was to kind of hang out until they actually needed me," says Eric Turner, pictured on the left. "And the way they kept me there was to keep feeding me alcohol." Turner, now a certified addiction technician, was featured in journalist Ryan Spencer's in-depth reporting on the drug and alcohol epidemic plaguing Colorado's mountain communities.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/d6510bf/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1873x1044+0+1/resize/560x312!/format/webp/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2F4a%2F39%2F70d80f87473e9603f9196979d532%2Feric-and-ryan.jpeg)
