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 […]
Maggie Seldeen
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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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Escuelas de Roaring Fork estudian nuevas estrategias de prevención del consumo de drogas, los expertos opinan
Por Halle Zander Traducido por Convey Language Solutions El 18 de enero, cuando el personal del distrito escolar se reunió en Basalt High School (BHS), se enseñó a las familias sobre la contaminación por fentanilo y cómo reconocer las señales de advertencia de la adicción a las drogas. La directora interina Megan Hartmann dice que […]
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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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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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Reducing harm with compassionate care
How many of us have lost a loved one to addiction? The prevalence of drug overdoses, almost always unintentional, is a continuing tragedy in the Roaring Fork Valley. According to recent data from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 2020 saw a 42.4% increase in drug-related overdose deaths in Colorado compared to 2019. In […]