Colorado trains K-9 police to save their dogs from opioid overdoses

Officer Brian Laas remembers the scene with vivid clarity: it was earlier this fall, and he – along with his four-legged partner, Rudy – had been called to a home in suburban Denver with a warrant for the arrest of one person who lived there.
Inside, the Arvada police officer found a home so disheveled it was difficult to take a single stride without stepping on the piles of clothes, food, trash and dog feces strewn across the floor. Rudy was there to sniff out the suspect. He found