You'll be surprised by one big reason for the switch.
is to"educate, empower, and advocate for the health and dignity of Denver's people who inject drugs, in accordance with harm reduction principles," reveals a surprising factor in this shift: climate change. She says that climatic conditions have led to a larger decrease in poppy production than did decades of interdiction efforts, and as a result,"heroin is transitioning out of Colorado. That's why we're seeing more synthetics like fentanyl.
Because many longtime heroin users in Denver and beyond are having trouble obtaining their previous drug of choice, they're changing over to fentanyl — and Raville acknowledges that users she's met through HRAC"are pumped, because they don't have to inject anymore. Injecting is difficult to do quickly, but fentanyl comes in blue pills that they can grind up and smoke."
There are also risks for people Raville refers to as"pill poppers" — folks who have grown accustomed to using opioids such as oxycodone for fun. Because such opioids were federally regulated, their dosages were reliable; as a result, individuals taking them at least had a sense of their strength.
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