COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Fentanyl continues to take lives in Southern Colorado, and members of the family of these handed concern they’re not the final household to expertise the tragedy.

Sarah Claudio-Grizzel, 31 years previous, died in early June. An post-mortem report from the El Paso County Coroner’s Workplace says unintentional fentanyl overdose was the reason for dying. Her mother-in-law says, she doesn’t imagine Claudio-Grizzel knew she was placing fentanyl into her physique.

“She had again issues due to a nasty accident and so she had befriended somebody that lived throughout the corridor from them. She had requested them for a ache capsule till she might get to the ache administration clinic,” stated Stephanie Higbee.

Higbee says, she and her household need justice for her daughter-in-law. KKTV 11 Information first reached out to Colorado Springs Police and the El Paso County Sheriff’s Workplace about this case in late July. After a number of days, the Sheriff’s Workplace stated the case is now being investigated by CSPD’s Metro Vice Narcotics and Investigations Workforce. A spokesperson for the police division acknowledged that’s the case, however declined to supply any additional particulars.

“They should do one thing to cease this,” Higbee added when talking with KKTV. She and her household paid for Sarah’s funeral, which they are saying is likely one of the elements that lately drove them into homelessness. For extra on their story and their GoFundMe web page, click on right here.

In the case of the larger fentanyl situation, specialists say it’s turning into more and more widespread for fentanyl to be laced in what’s offered on the road as widespread ache drugs.

“With the current fentanyl lacing of so many medicines, and it’s occurring in medicines even like Tylenol discovered on the streets,” stated Chief Medical Officer for Centura’s Penrose and St. Francis Hospitals, Dr. Invoice Plauth. “Up to now it was all the time thought-about somebody in search of out to get excessive or one thing alongside these traces. That’s not the case now. Folks could also be simply reaching out for normal ache medication … We simply can’t be utilizing medicines off the road.”

Higbee says she hopes folks head that warning, in order that extra households don’t should undergo what hers is.

“Sarah simply wished to cease the ache, she didn’t need to die … Fentanyl is killing so many individuals, it’s ridiculous. I simply by no means thought that it will hit this near dwelling. I didn’t assume it will be my son’s spouse.”

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