(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Kelly Howard, whose son Billy Perkins, 26, died of an opioid overdose, shared her story at a news conference in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2019. Intermountain Healthcare announced it had reduced the number of opioid pills it prescribed in 2018 by 3.8 million, compared to 2017.
Erin is a reporter who has previously been an outdoor columnist and worked the crime beat. She was the lead reporter on The Tribune's Pulitzer-winning coverage of campus sexual assault. She has worked at newspapers in Michigan and Iowa and taught English for two years at teacher-training colleges in China.