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This month we are debunking the myth once a junkie, always a junkie. This episode is a discussion between our host, Tim Light, and featured guests Maia Szalavitz, journalist and best-selling author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, Mindy Vincent, Utah Harm Reduction Executive Director, and Savannah Eley, Opioid Prevention Specialist for Southeastern Utah Health Department. UPR Partners
48:35
This month we are debunking the myth once a junkie, always a junkie. This episode is a discussion between our host, Tim Light, and featured guests Maia Szalavitz, journalist and best-selling author of Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary New Way of Understanding Addiction, Mindy Vincent, Utah Harm Reduction Executive Director, and Savannah Eley, Opioid Prevention Specialist for Southeastern Utah Health Department. UPR Partners
Woman sues to regain gun rights amid push for redemption
By DENNIS ROMBOYJanuary 2, 2021 GMT
Mindy Vincent poses for a portrait at Let s Do Something Productions, where she records her podcast, Therapeutic Madness, in South Salt Lake, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Vincent, a former drug addict and now a licensed clinical social worker who has turned her life around, is suing the government to restore her right to own a gun, which was revoked after she was convicted of bank fraud for trying to cash a $500 check in 2008. (Kristin Murphy/The Deseret News via AP)
Mindy Vincent poses for a portrait at Let s Do Something Productions, where she records her podcast, Therapeutic Madness, in South Salt Lake, Thursday, Dec. 17, 2020. Vincent, a former drug addict and now a licensed clinical social worker who has turned her life around, is suing the government to restore her right to own a gun, which was revoked after she was convicted of bank fraud for trying to cash a $500 check in 2008. (
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It’s unlikely there is anything in our lives this year that hasn’t been impacted by COVID-19, and that includes harm reduction practices related to opioid use in Utah. As part of the DEBUNKED podcast project, UPR’s Matilyn Mortensen looks at how harm reduction efforts in Utah have been affected by the coronavirus.
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“Essential services” is one of the 2020 buzzwords that it is very unlikely any of us were thinking about before the global pandemic. But in March, as COVID cases began to spread throughout the U.S. and as business and organizations began to shut down, defining what had to stay open became crucial.
Utah woman sues to get gun rights back after felony conviction UP NEXT
A Utah woman, who was federally convicted of a felony, is seeking the right to own a gun again.
Mindy Vincent, of Wasatch County, argues in a lawsuit filed in federal court Tuesday that America s founding fathers understood the right to keep and bear arms to be a fundamental individual right that could only be abridged in narrow circumstances.
Under federal law, people are generally banned from purchasing or possessing firearms if they have been convicted of a felony. Caption: KUTV
Vincent was convicted of a non-violent felony in 2008 for writing a fraudulent check in 2007, according to the suit.