Experts Urge Unified Response To Heroin And Opioid Abuse In Utah

Jennifer Plumb has watched Utah’s drug overdose deaths climb year after year. The Beehive State was eighth in the country not too long ago. Then it was fifth. Now its fourth. “We’re going in the wrong direction,” said Plumb, an assistant professor at the University of Utah Health Care’s pediatrics department. Plumb was one of many experts addressing the state’s drug epidemic Wednesday at the Utah Heroin and Opioid Summit in downtown Salt Lake City. The summit follows Prescription Opioid and Her...