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Pacheco pointed out that children might touch many surfaces in a public bathroom, putting them at a greater risk. In addition, the same dose would a ect a child more than an adult because of their size.

When it comes to meth contamination being airborne due to someone smoking it nearby, a person would have to be really close to that location within a relatively close time to when the smoking occurred in order to inhale it and have symptoms from that, Hill explained.

“If you’re in a bathroom where you’re in there for a few minutes, the odds are much less,” he said of developing symptoms. “Not to say you couldn’t get any — if you touched some and you ingested it, yes, you could get it, but certainly the odds are less.” aware of some kind of massive rash of secondary meth exposures presented to ERs all around the city in the last week or two, so I don’t think it’s a … new thing that we’re seeing.”

If a person does start feeling symptoms, they can always be evaluated for it, Hill said.

He noted he hasn’t seen an uptick in meth recently, though it is “a huge problem.”

“It’s one of the highest used illicit drugs we have in the metro area. I see it several times a day, methamphetamine psychosis,” Hill said.

Pacheco agreed that the new ndings represent the high levels of meth use in society, which she said has been an ongoing problem for years.

“It’s like many things: if you don’t know what to look for, it isn’t there,” she said. “And then if you start to look for it, suddenly it’s everywhere. But I don’t think this is a di erence in use, right? It’s a di erence in detection.”

Now what?

Regarding the ongoing conversation on how to best mitigate meth usage in public spaces and prevent a public space that’s been cleaned from getting contaminated again, Hill said he’s unsure of how to safely do that.

“I don’t know of anybody that has any kind of, like a smoke detector for meth or if someone’s smoking it then it alerts the crew or something — I’ve never seen anything like that, so I don’t know how you protect your space,” Hill said.

When asked if he has an opinion on whether public spaces and libraries should be doing regular testing for meth contamination, Hill said he doesn’t have enough information to draw an opinion about the risk.

He thinks routine screenings and cleanings of public spaces would be worthwhile if public health experts determined there was a signi cant risk of secondary contamination to the public.

“I think it’s certainly ne to clean the space, but as far as a routine method to say that we should always endorse a policy where we’re going to routinely screen these places and decontaminate them — I don’t know if that would be impactful to the public health of the community to do such a thing,” Hill said.

Pacheco, on the other hand, thinks routine testing would be a good step for public spaces because contamination can cause short term impacts to people’s health, even if it’s not very likely.

She also said measuring contamination levels would give “an indirect measure of how these spaces are being used” and could be a deterrent for people who are using the spaces for drug use.

When: Wednesday, February 8th 8:00am – 9:30am

Where: DTC Office 7887 E. Belleview Ave., Suite 820 Denver, CO80111

*Coffee and Bagels will be provided

When: Wednesday, February 22nd 11:30am – 1:00pm

Where: Denver West Office 1658 Cole Blvd., Bldg. 6, Suite200 Lakewood, CO 80401

*Sandwiches will be provided

Please RSVP to Sherice Ritthaler at saritthaler@dslawcolorado.com or call 303-670-9855

“Even if you don’t seek medical care and you feel a little o or your heart (is) beating a little harder … most times, that does just go away by itself,” Hill said. “Methamphetamine, there is no antidote for that. It’s just a matter of waiting it out.”

Do test results mean more people are doing meth?

Although recent test results show methamphetamine contamination in public spaces, Hill said he doesn’t think it’s a new occurrence.

“I would expect that this has been an ongoing thing for a while. I think we’re just now looking at it,” he said. “I’m not

But beyond the minor public health concerns, Pachecho sees the recent contamination levels as a sign of a larger problem. She noted that, while drug use is very common and addiction can touch anyone, there is a tie between drug addiction and people who are facing homelessness.

In order to address problems related to addiction, she said we must also address housing, education, wages and more.

“If you want to x a problem, you have to understand why it’s happening,” she said.

“ e people smoking meth… they’re not from another planet,” she said. “And I think we have to have some empathy for them. Which is not to say to permit it, but to understand that it’s a bigger problem that the whole society has to solve.”