Opioid abuse education, rural busing needs among education issues addressed by Utah lawmakers

SALT LAKE CITY — State lawmakers have earmarked $150,000 in one-time funding to develop secondary school curriculum to better address the state's opioid abuse, addiction and overdose crisis.Rep. Joel Briscoe, D-Salt Lake City, sought the appropriation to update existing curriculum on addiction developed by the Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah.The funding, part of late appropriations included in the yet-to-be approved HB3, will be used to update and expand an existi