(Salt Lake City, UT) — The state of Utah will get 209-million dollars over the next 15 years as part of a new settlement related to the opioid crisis. The Utah Attorney General’s Office announced a settlement with Walgreens, CVS and two drug companies yesterday that will send more than […]
(Salt Lake County, UT) — The State Of Utah will receive 266-million dollars to help combat the opioid epidemic. Salt Lake County officials laid out plans for how it will spend the 57-million dollars earmarked from a major settlement with painkiller manufacturers. Mayor Jenny Wilson and District Attorney Sim Gill […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah House has passed a proposal to create a committee to review drug overdose deaths. The Deseret News reports that the measure would also create an opioid fatality examiner position and enhance state databases to help study the nationwide opioid crisis in Utah. Republican sponsor Rep. […]
Sanpete County is now the sixth county in Utah to take drugmakers and distributors to court over the toll of the opioid epidemic. In their court filing, the Sanpete County Attorney’s Office accuses pharmaceutical companies of misleading residents by using a “publicity machine” to convince them opioids were safe and posed little […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — State leaders say heroin overdose deaths declined in Utah in 2017 for the first time in seven years. Data released Monday by state agencies shows that opioid-related overdose deaths decreased last year by almost 20 percent. Utah Lt. Gov. Spencer Cox says fatal overdoses specifically […]
Carbon and Sevier counties will get some help from the feds to help combat the opioid epidemic. The Department of Agriculture’s Office of Rural Development is providing the counties with nearly 400-thousand dollars. County leaders say the money will be used to provide ambulances that are equipped to treat overdose […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah has filed a lawsuit accusing manufacturers of the opioid OxyContin of creating a drug abuse epidemic in the state. Attorney General Sean Reyes said Thursday that drugmaker Purdue Pharma misrepresented the risk opioids posed and the likelihood of addiction, amounting to fraud, negligence and […]
OGDEN, Utah (AP) — Another county in Utah is suing opioid makers and distributors over what critics call the ill effects of prescription painkiller abuse. Weber County Commissioner James Ebert announced the 240-page lawsuit on Thursday. The Standard-Examiner reports it names 24 defendants, including opioid makers Purdue Pharma, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Cephalon. […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah is planning to file a lawsuit against manufacturers of the opioid OxyContin, claiming the company is responsible for high rates of overdoses and deaths. State chief criminal deputy Spencer Austin told lawmakers Wednesday that the attorney’s general office will take action against drugmaker Purdue […]
