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CNN focuses on Mormons and drug abuse
Television ยป ‘This Is Life’ reports on prescription painkiller abuse, deaths in Utah.
CNN shines a spotlight on Utah, Mormons and prescription painkiller abuse on Sunday night — and the LDS Church helped.
The upcoming edition of the new documentary series "This Is Life with Lisa Ling," which premiered this past Sunday, opens with dark, ominous shots of the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The host tells viewers, "More people are dying from pill overdoses in Utah than almost any other state in the U.S. and we’re here to find out why," then points directly at the large Mormon population.
But the report, titled "Unholy Addiction," does not bash the church.
"Whenever you put a show like this out, you get a little bit nervous about how people who subscribe to the faith will respond to it," Ling said in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. "But I really have to take my hat off to people in the church for giving us this kind of access and opening themselves up."
Including Kathy, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on rehab for herself and her daughter.
"There’s that pressure to be perfect," she said, "and since we don’t drink, there’s always the pills, which we don’t talk about."
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Television ยป ‘This Is Life’ reports on prescription painkiller abuse, deaths in Utah.
CNN shines a spotlight on Utah, Mormons and prescription painkiller abuse on Sunday night — and the LDS Church helped.
The upcoming edition of the new documentary series "This Is Life with Lisa Ling," which premiered this past Sunday, opens with dark, ominous shots of the Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The host tells viewers, "More people are dying from pill overdoses in Utah than almost any other state in the U.S. and we’re here to find out why," then points directly at the large Mormon population.
But the report, titled "Unholy Addiction," does not bash the church.
"Whenever you put a show like this out, you get a little bit nervous about how people who subscribe to the faith will respond to it," Ling said in a phone interview with The Salt Lake Tribune. "But I really have to take my hat off to people in the church for giving us this kind of access and opening themselves up."
Including Kathy, who has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on rehab for herself and her daughter.
"There’s that pressure to be perfect," she said, "and since we don’t drink, there’s always the pills, which we don’t talk about."
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