Department of Family Medicine

Addiction Medicine in the News

Written by Liz Campbell | November 25, 2024

(Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)

Denver Post, Nov. 25, 2024

Article: Fatal drug overdoses in Denver and across Colorado show declines through first half of 2024

“It could also be the adverse selection of people who were at the highest risk of experiencing a fatal overdose have already died,” said Tyler Coyle, an addiction medicine doctor [and associate professor of psychiatry at CU School of Medicine] who recently served as the president of the Colorado Society of Addiction Medicine. “Which sucks. And now we’re analyzing a population of people who are still using in settings where it could be hazardous, but for whatever reason they aren’t experiencing the same outcome.”