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Who is using heroin in Colorado?

State health and law enforcement agencies have a clearer picture than ever before of who is using heroin in Colorado and how users ended...

A community curbs pain pill abuse, but heroin addiction grows

In December 2014, as snow clung to the San Luis Valley in southwestern Colorado, nurses in the community helped deliver four babies that tested positive...

Homebrew: Aurora Police Department’s reputation goes up in smoke

Cigar-gate Cigar-gate has erupted – and no, this isn't a throw back to Bill Clinton's scandal. Aurora cops had built a cigar-smoking room in police...

Homebrew: EPA slow to clean up its own mess in Animas...

Not-so-mellow yellow The EPA accidentally released 3-million-plus gallons of polluted water from the Gold King Mine near Silverton last week. Waste flowing downstream reached the confluence of...