Correction: The column has been updated because “preliminary” data through October 2025 is available through the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, though not conclusive. Mugsy Fay Seldeen is the executive director of High Rockies Harm Reduction, the Roaring Fork Valley’s original harm reduction nonprofit meant to provide people experiencing addiction with life-saving resources. For […]
High Rockies Harm Reduction
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Reducing harm
You can’t get better if you’re not alive. This simple sentence can change a lot. It can change how people view the world and how they provide care to others. It can change the tools we’re willing to use. It’s the phrase I’ve seen spark light in people’s eyes, helping them see a different way […]
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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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National opioid lawsuit settlement funds find local allocation
Colorado is one of 46 states participating in the National Opioids Lawsuit, brought by the State Attorneys General against opioid manufacturers and pharmacies for their role in the country’s opioid epidemic. In Colorado, 19 regional opioid abatement councils are currently in the process of implementing administrative structures to disburse funds awarded to states and localities […]
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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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Scuttlebutt / Calendar – August 25, 2022
CORRECTION: John Colson and Anne Sullivan’s farewell potluck is on Wednesday, August 31 at 6 p.m. in Sopris Park. Carbondale Arts leadership Carbondale Arts announced on Tuesday, Aug. 23 that Jamie Abbott has been hired as the organization’s next executive director. Abbott is described in the press release as “a longtime local, no stranger to […]
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Syringe services and more, sans judgment
Maggie Seldeen started High Rockies Harm Reduction (HRHR), not on a whim, not because she thought it would be edgy, but because there was a need. A need she’s observed, and felt the impact of, within our community. Overcoming addiction is a convoluted path, with lots of twists and turns and ups and downs. HRHR […]
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HRHR advances its vision
The rain could not keep High Rockies Harm Reduction (HRHR) Founder and Executive Director Maggie Seldeen, board members and volunteers from putting on the event. There was a silent auction with several items donated by local businesses, Seldeen led a Narcan training (Narcan is used to reverse an opioid overdose as it’s happening and has […]