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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....

Wiretap: Trump is talking gun control, but at this point it’s...

In the aftermath of the Stoneman Douglas shooting, Donald Trump is starting to talk about gun control. He’s talking publicly about banning bump stocks...

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...