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Colorado Drug Statistics and Facts

  • Like in other cities, in Colorado, drug trafficking poses a serious threat to Thornton, and the drug abuse stats in Thornton are alarming. Incidents of drug abuse in Thornton, Colorado have been increasing for some time. Several addicts, in Thornton, abuse Cocaine, Marijuana, Meth, and Heroin.
  • In a large study of adolescent health, in 2007, Colorado stood in the top 10 for rates of past-month Marijuana and other illicit drug use among 12 year olds and those between 18 to 25 years.
  • Colorado adolescents in particular are abusing prescription drugs at a disturbing rate. According to stats from the Colorado Division of Behavioral Health and other government agencies, Coloradans ages 24 and younger comprised 20% of all admissions to Colorado drug treatment centers to treat addictions to opioids, like Oxycodone and Hydrocodone.
  • According to the 2006 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services yearly survey, the number of treatment facilities in Colorado was 443.
  • Adolescents in Colorado are not different from those across the United States. Results from a 2009 survey demonstrate, that, by the high school seniors, 81 percent of Colorado teens have used alcohol at some time in their life, with almost 19 percent having had their 1st drink before age 13.
  • According to 7News, the research reveals that the number of adolescents in Colorado that said they had used Marijuana in the previous year was 38% -- 9% higher than the national average of 29%.
  • 47.5% of the Colorado residents ages 18 to 25 reported binge drinking in the past month, The Denver Post reports. That compares with 41.4% nationally in the same age group.
  • Although centers, in Colorado, may provide more than 1 modality of care, 417 facilities (94 percent) in 2006 offered some form of outpatient treatment. An additional 68 centers offered some form of residential care, and 11 centers offered an opioid treatment program.
  • Hundreds of residents in Colorado are dying every year from drug abuse, but, the drugs behind a growing number of these deaths typically are not purchased on street corners or from drug dealers they are most commonly found in household medicine cabinets.
  • The most recent nationwide survey, conducted in 2007, ranks Colorado as 1 of the states with the most noted drug use.
  • Cocaine use in Denver, Colorado has been trending downward in current years. In 2008, Denver hospitals listed 1,502 Cocaine-related discharges, compared to 1,862 in 2006.
  • In the 2006 National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services research, Colorado showed a 1-day total of 33,264 patients in treatment, the majority of whom (31,591 or 95 percent) were in outpatient treatment. Of the total number of patients in treatment on this date, 2,717 (8 percent) were under the age of 18.
  • Three times as many people died in 2008 of prescription drug abuse, 562, than died from drunken driving-related accidents, 173, in Denver, Colorado, and the problem had grown significantly in the past years, from 298 prescription-drug-related deaths in 2000 to 562 deaths in 2008.
  • 49 percent of the drug-related deaths between 2003 and 2008 in Denver, Colorado was caused by prescription drugs.
  • Colorado adolescents in particular are abusing prescription drugs at a disturbing rate. According to stats from the Colorado Division of Behavioral Health and other state offices, Colorado residents ages 24 and younger comprised 20% of all admissions to Colorado drug treatment centers to treat addictions to opioids, like Oxycodone and Hydrocodone.
  • Colorado residents ages 24 and younger comprised 29% of all admissions to Colorado drug treatment centers to treat addictions to stimulants.
  • According to the 2008 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, almost 82% of people in Colorado reported prescription-drug abuse and said they had obtained the drugs from a relative or friend for free.
  • Yearly deaths in Colorado because of drug-related poisoning more than doubled from 351 in 2000, to 838 in 2011. Deaths related to the use of opioid analgesics like Fentanyl, Codeine, Morphine, Hydrocodone, Oxycodone and Methadone nearly quadrupled from 87 in 2000, to 304 in 2011.
  • In 2011, nearly twice as many people in Colorado died from poisoning from Opioid analgesics (304) than from drunk-driving related deaths (161).
  • According to the Prescription Drug Monitoring Program, Oxycodone prescriptions for Denver residents increased by 53.1 percent from the third quarter of 2007 through the end of 2011. During the same time, the rate of Hydrocodone prescriptions increased 10.6 percent.