Department of Medicine

Opinion: A tougher drug-related homicide law won’t reduce overdose deaths

Written by The Colorado Sun | March 10, 2023

Opinion by Joshua Barocas, of Denver, an associate professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. “In response to the overdose crisis that has consumed Colorado, largely attributable to illicitly manufactured fentanyl, some lawmakers are turning toward ‘supply side’ interventions that they believe will curb overdose deaths.