Opioids have been a problem in communities across the US for a long time now, but one specific opioid, fentanyl, is causing overdoses at an exponential rate. Some say prevention and addressing trauma are overlooked, but essential, strategies to curb the opioid crisis. On this week’s Health & Prevention Report, KSJD’s Lucas Brady Woods discusses with Katie McClure, the project facilitator for the Southwest Colorado Opioid Overdose Prevention Consortium.

The U.S. Department of the Interior is considering emergency cutbacks to water supplies for Arizona, California, and Nevada. And the Colorado Health Foundation has awarded a grant to the Ute Mountain Ute tribe to provide high-speed internet to tribal members.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis says a package of bills advancing at the state house this week will generate hundreds of thousands of new affordable housing units. And Colorado lawmakers are advancing a bill to make sure wildfire survivors get compensated for their property losses more quickly.

More than two dozen Colorado landmarks are on the verge of getting new names. And avian flu has wiped out a backyard flock of chickens in Pitkin County.

The Colorado Senate has approved a thirty six billion dollar state budget. And Colorado lawmakers are advancing a bill to make it a crime for residents to use their cell phones while driving.

Many communities in Colorado are sounding the alarm over the high cost of housing but the state's lawmakers are advancing a bill they say will help. And the Montezuma-Cortez RE-1 School Board named finalists for the district’s superintendent position this week.

Elections closed yesterday in Cortez, Dolores and Mancos.

A proposed bill in the Navajo Nation Legislature would repeal a portion of a law that prohibits same sex marriage. And Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and First Lady Nez met with officials at the White House last week.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has been busy this past week signing several bills into law. Utah's snowpack is in dire shape and the state should expect a very dry summer.

Colorado lawmakers have unveiled a bill to make large manufacturers pay for a new statewide recycling program. Utah is joining 20 other states in suing to end the federal transportation mask mandate.