Opioid Crisis Recovery Funds Advisory Committee

House Bill 19-1009 (opens webpage) created the Opioid Crisis Recovery Funds Advisory Committee, which is tasked with advising and collaborating with the Department of Law on the use of any funds received by Colorado as a result of an opioid addiction-related settlement or damage award for which the use of the funds is not predetermined or committed by other orders.

The committee is comprised of 13 Governor appointees and 13 members of various organizations, who include representatives from state agencies, people impacted by the epidemic, medical professionals, law enforcement, advocacy organizations, and representatives from eastern and western Colorado.

Click here (opens PDF) to view the full roster.

To learn more about the Colorado Opioid Settlement Framework and the distribution of the opioid settlement funds, please click here to view Colorado’s Opioid Settlement Dashboard (opens webpage). You may find allocation and expenditure data for the State Share of opioid funds on the Dashboard’s State Share and Infrastructure Funds page (opens webpage).

Colorado Opioid Abatement Conferences

Loveland – Oct. 27, 2025

Register now for the 2025 Colorado Opioid Abatement Conference now with this link: https://events.humanitix.com/coac2025 (opens webpage).

This interactive conference will include collaborative break-out rooms and networking sessions, presentations on best practices for addressing the opioid crisis, the nuts and bolts of opioid settlement funds, and how to leverage state and national resources.

Loveland – Sep. 30, 2024

Over 400+ community leaders attended the 2024 Colorado Opioid Abatement Conference in Loveland, representing the entire state, and attendees are now returning to their communities with additional tools, resources, and connections to maximize the impact of the opioid settlement funds in their communities. You can find the full agenda here: https://coag.gov/opioids/conference (opens webpage).

This interactive conference included collaborative break-out rooms and networking sessions, presentations on best practices for addressing the opioid crisis, the nuts and bolts of opioid settlement funds, and how to leverage state and national resources.

Montrose – Aug. 16-18, 2023

Over 200+ community leaders attended the 2023 Colorado Opioid Abatement Conference in Montrose, representing the entire state, and attendees are now returning to their communities with additional tools, resources, and connections to maximize the impact of the opioid settlement funds in their communities.

This interactive 3-day conference included collaborative break-out rooms and networking sessions, presentations on best practices for addressing the opioid crisis, the nuts and bolts of opioid settlement funds, and how to leverage state and national resources.

Denver – Aug. 15-16, 2022

More than 45 speakers and hundreds of attendees visited the 2022 Colorado Opioid Abatement Conference in Denver on Aug. 15 and 16, 2022.

The 2-day conference included presentations on best practices for addressing the opioid crisis, how opioid settlement funds will be distributed, how to leverage state and national resources, and practical information about receiving funds.

Click here (opens webpage) to access all the conference materials or the link above to access all the videos.