(Salt Lake County, UT) — Utah will receive 57-million-dollars from a 7-point-4 billion dollar settlement with Purdue Pharma and the Sackler family over the opioid crisis. The funds will reportedly be used for addiction treatment, prevention, and education. Governor Spencer Cox called the settlement a step toward recovery, addressing the […]
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The final legal chapter of a multimillion-dollar online opioid drug ring has ended as a group of millennials who helped run the dark-web operation based in suburban Salt Lake City have been sentenced to prison. Drew Crandall helped start the operation that eventually grew to […]
Officers from the Iron, Garfield, Beaver County Task Force along with Garfield County Deputies and one member from the Piute County Sheriff’s Office were all involved in the home arrest of Roxanne Abner-Simpkins on Dec. 28. During the arrest, over one pound of Methamphetamine, along with a substantial amount of […]
PROVO, Utah (AP) — A new study says Utah’s number of drug overdose suicides has potentially been underreported by 33%. The Provo Daily Herald reports the study published in the journal Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior came to the conclusion after looking at 2,665 overdose deaths that occurred from 2012 to 2015 […]
