{"id":934879,"date":"2026-10-16T06:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934879\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T06:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:42:11","slug":"salt-lake-county-resource-fair-to-offer-free-naloxone-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/934879\/","title":{"rendered":"Salt Lake County resource fair to offer free Naloxone kits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The Salt Lake County Health Department will host a free resource fair this Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Health workers will be on site to give out free naloxone kits, which reverse overdoses from opioids like fentanyl.<\/p>\n<p>In Utah, the number of opioid prescriptions dispensed by physicians has been decreasing since 2022. Still, in 2026, 244 people died after an opioid overdose, <a href=\"https:\/\/dhhs.utah.gov\/health-dashboards\/drug-and-opioid-data\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Utah Department of Health and Human Services<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The resource fair will also offer disease and mental health screenings, hygiene kits and boxed lunches.<\/p>\n<p>The event will be held at the Salt Lake County Government Center at 2001 S. State Street from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. No appointment is necessary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SALT LAKE CITY \u2014 The Salt Lake County Health Department will host a free resource fair this Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":934880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[49,48,581,1891,84,1892,124,1337,377,44,1893,1894,82,1788,1890,1895,1133],"class_list":["post-934879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cars","tag-classifieds","tag-health","tag-homes","tag-jobs","tag-local","tag-medication","tag-news","tag-radio","tag-salt-lake","tag-sports","tag-television","tag-traffic","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/934880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}