DENVER (KDVR) — The variety of folks dying from drug overdoses within the nation has taken a dip.
However not in Colorado.
The variety of folks dying each day from overdoses within the Centennial State stays roughly the identical.
For a few months, the Drug Enforcement Administration Rocky Mountain Division has been seen making plenty of arrests within the Denver Metro throughout raids. The DEA says one among its main objectives is to get harmful medicine off the streets and to make them more durable to purchase on the road.
Throughout the nation, the variety of folks who died from overdoses dropped 24% throughout a 12-month interval final yr.
“Whereas the numbers nationally have come down, largely due to entry to the Naloxone and Narcan (opioid reversal brokers), we would like folks to grasp that there’s nonetheless an actual menace of their group to those lethal medicine which are on our streets,” DEA Rocky Mountain division Particular Agent in Cost Jonathan Pullen mentioned.
The DEA mentioned a mean of 5 folks die each day in Colorado because of drug overdoses and that quantity has not modified a lot for the final three years. There is no such thing as a clear purpose why.
“There’s clearly an abuse downside right here. It takes extra than simply legislation enforcement to repair this downside. It takes public well being consultants. It takes dad and mom speaking to their youngsters. It takes lecturers speaking to their college students. It takes all of us to speak about this downside and be sure that persons are conscious of this hazard,” Pullen mentioned.
Pullen mentioned brokers will proceed teaming up with different Federal businesses to assist struggle the unlawful drug downside in Colorado.
