Colorado Checkup: March 2025

The Colorado Psychedelic Mushroom Experiment Has Arrived

Kate Ruder

With the first licenses for providing psychedelic mushrooms issued, excitement and questions build about the fungi’s potential, affordability, and safety in the Centennial State.

Hospital Gun-Violence Prevention Programs May Be Caught in US Funding Crossfire

Stephanie Wolf

Hospital-based violence intervention programs have operated in the U.S. since the mid-1990s. The public health approach to gun violence works, by many accounts. But recent moves by the White House are raising anxiety about the programs’ future.

Recortes federales pueden afectar a programas en hospitales de prevención de la violencia con armas de fuego

Stephanie Wolf

El objetivo de estos programas es identificar los factores sociales y económicos que contribuyeron a que una persona terminara en una sala de emergencias.