Clark says options for firearm storage at gun ranges and retailers is part of the Firearm Injury Prevention Initiative. It was spearheaded by Emmy Betz, a professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. "It really grew out of many of us who are researchers, who are clinicians, who are educators, feeling like we wanted to do more," Betz said.
Emily Hemendinger at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus has studied how social media can impact eating disorders. "With eating disorders, genetics and temperament and family life kind of load that gun, and things like social media and society pull the trigger," Hemendinger said.
“The more we've studied it, the more we realize that there's no level of lead in the diet or in intake that's without deleterious effects,” said Dr. Michael Kosnett, an associate clinical professor of medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine.
“People sometimes talk about it as the epidemic that folks don't look at,” said Dr. Joseph Sakai, an addiction psychiatrist and associate professor at the University of Colorado Department of Psychiatry on the CU Anschutz Medical Campus.
Mike Van Dyke, associate professor at the Colorado School of Public Health, told Denver7 last week that the state of Colorado established a residential cleanup level, which is based on a young child's exposure to meth in an entire home.
Dr. Robert Valuck, director of the Center for Prescription Drug Abuse Prevention at CU Anschutz, said that while the settlement money will help local prevention efforts, it is far from a panacea. "It's like bringing a garden hose to this forest fire and expecting it to be put out in 20 minutes, and it's just not going to work that way. This is a very complicated problem that is going to take years to untangle ourselves from," Valuck said.
“We’re continuing to see far more people hospitalized with flu than at this time in a typical year,” said Beth Carlton, an associate professor of environmental and occupational health at the Colorado School of Public Health. “I think that’s the big concern for the weeks ahead.”
“We really just set out to ask the question, "how much of the concussions of girls lacrosse could be directly attributed to the fact that they are prohibited from wearing the hard shell helmet with the full facemask that’s required in boys lacrosse?" said [Colorado School of Public Health professor Dawn] Comstock.
April 14, 2023