In observing Opioid Awareness Week, Weber State University's Neuroscience department hosted a presentation titled "Neuromodulation as an Adjunctive Treatment for Substance Disorder" on Oct. 26. The lecture...
Discussing the opioid addiction sweeping the country and Utah was the priority last week during Weber State University’s second annual Opioid Awareness Week.
“This is a problem that is not going...
A Weber State University 1999 graduate, Maureen Cavanagh, came back to WSU to teach students about opioid addiction and how she learned through family experience how to combat it.
Author of “If You...
On the week of Oct. 1-4, Weber State University assistant professor Todd Hillhouse organized an opioid awareness week.
The week included an awareness fair, speakers and expert panel. The event aimed to...
When wife, mother of four and small business-owner Maureen Cavanagh received an email titled “Former Marblehead Honor Student Facing Prostitution Charges” from her hometown in Massachusetts,...
In Utah, 360 people died from fatal opioid overdoses in 2017, a decrease from 449 deaths in 2016, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.According to Jennifer Plumb, an emergency medicine...
The phrase “opioid epidemic” has consumed our state in the form of billboards, newspapers and documentaries for several years. The number of fatal drug overdoses has risen nationwide since 1999,...
1. What has former White House senior aide Rob Porter been accused of?a. Embezzlementb. Lying under oathc. Domestic abuse2. Former Obama administration official Maria Contreras-Sweet is in talks to buy...
I was born and raised in Syracuse, five minutes from the Great Salt Lake. I was carted around on camping trips and bike rides around Southern Utah with my dad before I could even walk. My family gets together...
Utah Patients Coalition launched its 2018 ballot initiative campaign designed to advocate for the use and distribution of medical marijuana to patients with serious medical conditions in Utah.
The 2018...
