Ace reporter seeks housingAmy Hadden Marsh, one of the Valley’s top reporters, and her indoor cat (Dizzy) are in need of a place to live. Marsh lost her housing of 27 years due to circumstances beyond her control and hopes to remain local. If you know of a reasonably-priced place, please email amy@soprissun.com Ski and […]
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New HRHR ambulance furthers mobile services
High Rockies Harm Reduction (HRHR), a nonprofit founded in 2020 by Maggie (aka Mugsy Fay) Seldeen, is committed to combating overdose deaths and providing evidence-based harm reduction programming in rural Colorado. Recently, HRHR received a donated ambulance from Eagle Valley Paramedic Services. This provides a climate-controlled space to host one-on-one anonymous services for clients in […]
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Guest Opinion: Keeping the party safe this summer
In honor of National Fentanyl Awareness Day, May 7, I’d like to call attention to growing concerns around overdose and the impact illegal fentanyl has in rural Colorado. Over the past few years, we’ve continued to lose friends, loved ones and neighbors to fentanyl overdoses in our community, often through unknown contamination in other drugs. […]
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With rising fentanyl threat, CPD chief urges community awareness
The fentanyl statistics are alarming — especially for teens.In 2022, an average of 22 adolescents aged 14 to 18 died weekly in the United States due to drug overdoses. Fentanyl in counterfeit pills is identified as a significant contributor to this alarming trend.The rate of adolescent overdoses more than doubled from 2019 to 2020 and […]
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RFSD Report: Board responds to drug concerns
At the Dec. 13 Roaring Fork School District board meeting, Interim Superintendent Dr. Anna Cole said, “We do have an increasing concern regarding the presence, use, abuse and transmission of illegal narcotics, like cocaine, opioids, fentanyl, at our high schools.” In her superintendent update, she shared what was discussed at a meeting with the District […]
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Aperture of Hope sheds light on grief
When you visit the Aperture of Hope website, you are greeted by the photo of a young woman with green eyes, long auburn-colored hair and a gentle smile. That fresh-faced young woman, Emily Adams, died after ingesting a fentanyl-laced Percocet pill. At the time of her death, the 21-year-old was employed as a peer support […]
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Back-to-back arrests indicate fentanyl is in Carbondale
Fentanyl is here and it can find anyone who is recreationally or habitually using drugs. Two recent arrests made by the Carbondale Police Department (CPD) resulted in the discovery of substances that tested presumptive positive for fentanyl-laced cocaine. The substances were sent to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation for confirmatory testing, the results of which […]
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Navigating the party amid fentanyl boom
Doctor Rob Valuck runs a drug abuse prevention center at the University of Colorado, “The Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention.” Most of the center’s work focuses on prescribed drugs, but not exclusively. “Virtually my entire career has been spent on, more or less, the opioid crisis and trying to formulate responses to it at […]
