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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

National approved use: providing support for non-opioid pain treatment alternatives, including training providers to offer or refer to multi-modal, evidence-informed treatment of pain.

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