Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Mar 10, 2008 by Lara Jones

Midday Metro starts after the 10 a.m. news

Laissez faire capitalism and social norms, governmental regulation and criminal prohibition all play into America's drug habit. Midday Metro talks with law professor and co-director of the Utah Criminal Justice Center Erik Luna about this week's two-day conference on Drugs: Addiction, Therapy, and Crime at the University of Utah.

 

Several bills approved by lawmakers had the support of the Sutherland Institute, a conservative public policy think-tank based in Salt Lake. President Paul Mero talks about the important gains for parental rights, limited government, and public access to information that came out of this year's legislative session. Click here to read the domestic violence report referenced by Mero in today's interview.

 

Deep Vein Thrombosis - or DVT - affects up to 2 million Americans each year. While the disease is preventable, approximately 600,000 people are hospitalized each year with DVT and its primary complication, pulmonary embolism. Learn how to prevent this life-threatening condition with Dr. Robert Pendleton, director of the University Health Care's Thrombosis Services, and Melanie Bloom, whose husband, David, died of DVT while covering the war in Iraq for NBC. Bloom is now a spokesperson for the Coalition to Prevent Deep-Vein Thrombosis.

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