Sunrise Stories: Serious Traffic Accidents, and Strong Residents
KDXU Sunrise Stories for July 20, 2023. Multiple traffic accidents involving injuries, some quick thinking St. George residents, and forgiving student debts.
drug overdoses
Hyper-Deadly New Drug Hitting The Streets Of Utah
Fentanyl is deadly and addictive. And now it's got a stronger, deadlier brother in carfentanil.
"It's 50 to 100 times stronger, more concentrated than fentanyl," said Southwest Utah Public Health director Dr. David Blodgett Wednesday on the Andy Griffin Show...
Drug overdose suicides may be underreported
The number of suicides in Utah caused by drug overdoses may be greatly underreported.
A new study published in the medical journal "Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior" looked at more than 26-hundred overdose deaths in Utah that occurred from 2012 to 2015...