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You can help end overdose deaths in Colorado! Please join the Northern Colorado Harm Reduction Alliance and the Northern Colorado Health Alliance in supporting our 4th Annual Overdose Awareness Day events. Enjoy: Breakfast burritos and coffee (for our first 50 guests), remembrance activities, yoga, lawn games, balloon animals, massages and more!
  • 59% rise in overdose deaths in Colorado in 2020
  • 783% increase in Fentanyl related deaths from 2017 to 2020 
  • In 2020, Colorado lost a record 1,457 people to overdose. 
  • Since 2000, 16,000 Coloradans have lost their lives to overdose. 
  • In 2019, 3,089,898 Opioid prescriptions were dispensed in Colorado. That is on average above 8,000 opioid prescriptions fulfilled each day.
​The risk of an opioid overdose is greater than you might think. Opioid overdoses happen to anyone and kill tens of thousands of people every year. In 2018, 543 people in Colorado died because of an opioid overdose, and opioid overdoses killed 47,600 Americans in 2017.
North America continues to experience the highest drug-related mortality rate in the world, accounting for 1-in-4 drug-related deaths globally.
Source: The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘World Drug Report 2019’
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In January 2017, the Centre for Disease Control has estimated that the number of people in the USA who had died from overdose in the 12-month period prior to January 2017 was 64,070.
Source: The Centre for Disease Control ‘Provisional Counts of Drug Overdose deaths, as of 8/6/2017’. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/health_policy/monthly-drug-overdose-death-estimates.pdf
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