Saturday is "Drug Take-Back Day"

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On Saturday, local law enforcement agencies are once again joining the federal Drug Enforcement Administration in collecting unused prescription drugs. Denver, Lakewood, and Aurora are among the many police departments that will be collecting the …
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Pot could be tax windfall, but skeptics abound

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Washington's campaign promises to devote more than half of marijuana taxes to substance-abuse prevention, research, education and health care. Washington state analysts have produced the most generous estimate of how much tax revenue legal pot …
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Addicted to Opiates: Heroin in Denver, Part Two

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National and local drug experts are so worried about the quadrupling of painkiller and other opiate overdoses — now at 15,000 deaths a year — they want an emergency overdose-blocker called Narcan to be available over the counter to any addict. Angel …
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