Utah House Speaker Greg Hughes is on a new campaign trail — this time not for public office, but to encourage counties statewide to bring lawsuits to hold big drug companies accountable for the damage the opioid crisis has inflicted on Utahns.
“We must take this fight to those who have profited by making blatantly false claims that have adversely affected Utahns lives,” Hughes said in a news release Thursday. “Utah has an important and unique story that needs to be shared. Now is the time to act.”
Hughes made his pitch Thursday afternoon in a speech to government leaders gathered for the two-day Utah Association of Counties annual conference in St.