You probably haven't thought about how metro Denver's fentanyl crisis is affecting coroners. But the impact is huge.
"Last year, we had 104 fentanyl deaths — there were 29 in 2019 — and almost 200 total overdose deaths," she says."If you look at just Monday through Friday, when we're doing autopsies, that's almost a case a day."
A significant portion of this time period overlaps with the spread of COVID-19, but the disease was responsible for only a small part of the larger autopsy total. Unfortunately, Lear is seeing no such decrease in overdose deaths generally or fentanyl fatalities specifically, given how the synthetic opioid has wormed its way into the community.
This isn't simply an opinion. The Arapahoe County Coroner's Office is one of four in Colorado accredited by the, whose standard recommendation for forensic pathologists is 250 autopsies a year."We can nudge that up a little, but 325 is the maximum," Lear notes —and with more than 900 autopsies last year, she and Bitting are both way over the limit, making it more difficult than ever to wrap up cases in a timely manner.
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