SALT LAKE CITY — Utah ranks fifth in the nation for overdose deaths.

People who work with addicts call the current prescription drug abuse epidemic the worst in the nation's history.

 

More people now die every year from painkiller overdoses than car crashes.

 

More than 380 Utahns died in 2014 from opioid painkiller overdoses. That number was more than 44,000 across the U.S.

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