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Monday evening, Feb. 24, 2020Maintaining Navajo RoadsA 2-year-old stalemate over who should maintain roads on the Navajo Nation in San Juan County has…
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A first-of-its-kind program at the University of Utah is bringing together teachers and professors to create high school curriculum about opioids. Inside…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently reported record drug overdose numbers in 2017, but a handful of states saw a decrease last…
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting a record 72,000 people died from opioid overdoses last year. Meanwhile, a newly published...
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A state-by-state analysis of opioid prescriptions for people who visited emergency rooms with a sprained ankle show one in four patients were given…
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On a recent Tuesday morning at the West Jordan library outside Salt Lake City, Peter Sadler was carefully stabbing an orange with a syringe."Try to be as…
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More than two dozen counties in Utah have filed lawsuits against opioid makers or are considering doing so. But are they really thinking of going to trial…
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Utah is the latest state going after drugmakers for their role in the nation’s opioid epidemic. At a press conference at the state capitol on Thursday,…
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As opioid overdoses from prescription and illicit drugs continue to plague Utah, librarians who serve the public often find themselves on the front lines…
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After months of public pressure from state lawmakers, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes is gearing up to file a lawsuit against at least one opioid…
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Of all the statistics connected to America’s opioid epidemic, Utah leads the way on one especially troubling ranking: our state has the highest rate of…
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Medical help can be hours away for overdose victims in the rural Mountain West. That’s one reason why it’s been so important for Utah and neighboring…