{"id":804165,"date":"2026-10-16T05:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804165\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T05:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T05:46:10","slug":"salt-lake-county-resource-fair-to-offer-free-naloxone-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/804165\/","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":804166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[7816,18057,102,5365,1371,8929,6591,50,2186,18058,101,3133,13803,56,54,55,2253,1068],"class_list":["post-804165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","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-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-utah","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}