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Capitol review: Lawmakers chipped away at opioid epidemic with 6 bills...

Editor’s note: The Indy is publishing a series of short stories reviewing the 2019 legislative session in Colorado. Here, we focus on opioids. We also wrote...

Opioid-addiction treatment slips on priority list as Senate advances state budget...

State Sen. Brittany Pettersen never figured she would have to fight so hard to persuade her colleagues to expand opioid-addiction treatment in Colorado. The...

Amid a growing opioid epidemic, lawmakers hope to end drug-addiction withdrawal...

On a warm spring day in 2015, Sarah Blair was stranded at a Safeway in Thornton with no car and a dead cell phone....