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Colorado

State Facts

1,013

Deaths, or 61.9% of total overdose deaths involved opioids in 2024.¹

930,569

Claims, or 5% of all Medicare Part D claims were for opioids in 2022 – over 40 claims per prescriber.²

32.4

Opioid Prescriptions were written for every 100 persons in Colorado in 2023.³

$22 Billion

was the total estimated cost to Colorado of fatal opioid-related overdoses in 2023.⁴

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Opioid Settlement Funds

$717,665,250.57
State Spending Recommendation

The Colorado Opioid Abatement Council (COAC) works with the 19 Regional Opioid Abatement Councils to distribute opioid settlement funds for substance use disorder treatment, recovery, harm reduction, law enforcement, and prevention/education programs.

See the Colorado’s Opioid Settlement Funds Dashboard HERE

Member & Endorser Footprint

Voices is backed by a broad coalition of organizations across the state united by a shared goal: ensuring patients have access to safe, effective, 
and individualized pain management throughout the continuum of care.

Co-Sponsors (119th)

Sen. Michael Bennet

Sen. Michael Bennet

1. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2025). Provisional Drug Overdose Death Counts. https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/drug-overdose-data.htm

2. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2024). Medicare Part D Opioid Prescribing Mapping Tool. https://cms-oeda.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=5390718d875d4c049b1ac5976a9ff083

3. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (2024). Opioid Dispensing Rate Maps. https://www.cdc.gov/overdose-prevention/data-research/facts-stats/opioid-dispensing-rate-maps.html

4. Common Sense Insitute Colorado (2024). Colorado’s Fentanyl Problem and the Economic Costs. https://www.commonsenseinstituteus.org/colorado/research/housing-and-our-community/colorados-fentanyl-problem-and-the-economic-costs