Colorado kratom death: Bereaved woman says government could have saved her brother

Thirty-six people in the United States have died after using kratom, a largely unregulated drug sold in shops around Denver, according to the federal government. A young man in Boulder may be among them.

Longmont to pay $200,000 after unwarranted drug searches of subsidized apartments

Denver Public Library wants $51 million for surveillance, safety and other renovations at central branch

Following a number of reports of drug use and violence at Denver Central Library, there are short-term and long-term plans to improve safety.

Marijuana addiction is not just in your head, as explained by two doctors and David Foster Wallace

Plenty of people have continued to use even while saying that they should quit. That's the definition of substance-use disorder.

The feds say they took down Denver’s “East Side Crips”

The opioid crisis in Colorado: Plunging prices. Twice as many deaths. Twenty times more confiscated heroin.

Authorities seized about 269 pounds of heroin in Colorado in 2015, nearly 17 times more than they had in 2011, according to a troubling new report.

What’s the most typical cannabis business name you can imagine?

Denver will let some opioid users out of jail earlier if they start drug treatment

Government agencies in Denver just announced a new strategy for treating drug addiction and reducing the number of people in jail.

The future of drug diversion programs could leave the courts out entirely

Beth McCann and Helen Morgan, the two candidates for Denver District Attorney, both said they support more money and new approaches for diversion programs.

Denver has banned five suspected drug users from its parks so far

Denver police officers now have the power to temporarily ban people from public spaces, and they're starting to use it.

A woman and her grandchild saw two bodies near Five Points yesterday. She wishes she had said something.

"We thought maybe he was tired. We had no idea that he had just fallen over dead."

ACLU calls Denver’s parks banishment plan “an unacceptable end run around the Constitution”

A person does not need to be convicted or even arrested on a drug charge to be banned from city parks and the Cherry Creek path.

Denver is banning individual drug dealers from hanging out along Cherry Creek

Mark Crumpacker, Chipotle executive charged with cocaine possession, is arrested

Mark Crumpacker was arrested at 9 a.m. Tuesday on seven counts of possession of a controlled substance. Crumpacker, 53, is one of Chipotle's top executives.

Home prices are rising, but Denver doesn’t crack top 20 cities for million-dollar homes

It's all relative.