2023 Colorado Legislative Season Kick-off

In this podcast, Pam & Melissa discuss the first week of Colorado legislative session: one bad bill for school mental health, one good bill for informed consent, and one deceptive bill on using drugs off-label. They also discuss the CDPHE SMART hearing from this week, and two concerning bills on CDPHE’s legislative agenda (“free” vaccines & changes to advance directives). CDPHE has two new priorities: 1. Funding gun control policies at “The office of gun violence prevention” and 2. destroying the oil & gas industry with new regulations for “climate change.” And yet the most shocking health news of the week is CDPHE’s briefing on suicide to the Joint Health Committee. And the action item for this week is to opt-out of CIIS.