opioids

Rep. John Curtis, R-UT, has introduced legislation he said will help combat opioid addiction. It would let patients state in their medical records that they don’t want to be given opioids. Dr. Shane Brogan, director of pain medicine with Huntsman Cancer Institute said the bill has good intentions, but a more important step would be to make it easier to access other pain treatment options — like physical therapy.

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…

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…

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…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting a record 72,000 people died from opioid overdoses last year. Meanwhile, a newly published...

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…

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…

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…

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,…

As opioid overdoses from prescription and illicit drugs continue to plague Utah, librarians who serve the public often find themselves on the front lines…

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…

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…