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2023 Legislative Recap
By José Esquibel Colorado Opioid and Other SUD Legislation Update Summary, 2023 Senate Bill 23-109 Criminal Penalty Controlled Substance Supplier was introduced by Senator Byron Pelton and Senator Kyle Mullica. […]
Legislative update — April 2023
By José Esquibel The General Assembly is back in session, and the Consortium is tracking 11 bills that affect opioids and substance use treatment and prevention. Follow the links to […]
Legislative update — March 2023
By José Esquibel The General Assembly is back in session, and the Consortium is tracking 11 bills that affect opioids and substance use treatment and prevention. Follow the links to […]
Legislative Update — February 2023
The General Assembly is back in session, and as always lawmakers are considering several bills about opioids and substance use treatment and prevention. Here are eight that the Consortium is […]
2023 Lunch and Learn Series
Registration is now open for the Consortium’s 2023 provider Lunch and Learn series. Click on the hyperlinked topics below to learn more and register for a session on the Colorado […]
2022 fentanyl bill details
HB22-1326: Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention Act Section 1: Legislative declaration Section 2-6: Addresses the proposed criminal penalties for unlawful possession of synthetic opiates and for unlawful manufacturing, distributing, and dispensing […]
Looking into the details of the new fentanyl laws
In the final hours of the 2022 legislative session, the Colorado General Assembly passed HB22-1326, the Fentanyl Accountability and Prevention, which was signed by Governor Polis. The bill received considerable […]
Consortium helps CU Anschutz students save lives with naloxone
Students at the CU Anschutz Medical Campus spend years learning how to save lives. This week, they learned how to stop opioid overdose deaths by using naloxone. It might be […]
Benzodiazepine-focused webinar series, sponsored by the Consortium’s Benzodiazepine Action Work Group scheduled for May.
Please join the Colorado Consortium’s Benzodiazepine Action Work Group for our free CME lunch and learn webinar series. Webinar topics include alternative treatments to BZDs, consequences of BZD prescribed use, […]