Price, Utah has a population of a little over 8,000 and for the past two-and-a-half years, Bud Truman has been waking up each morning at 4 to drive Carbon and Emery County residents to Operation Recovery.
An Operation Recovery van transports clients to a methadone clinic in Price before sunrise on Wednesday, March 22, 2023.This story is part of The Salt Lake Tribune’s ongoing commitment to identify solutions to Utah’s biggest challenges through the work of the Innovation Lab.It’s late March, and cold and dark and damp outside. But inside the Ford passenger van Bud Truman is driving, the heater is pumping and there’s no need to bundle up.
Once everyone is accounted for, Truman turns back toward Operation Recovery, a nondescript two-story building. His passengers wait in the lobby and step up, two-by-two, to a window where a nurse hands them a cup of methadone. Some choose to mix in Tang or water to mask the medication’s unpleasant taste.
“It was built out of necessity,” said Melissa Huntington, executive director of Four Corners Community Behavioral Health, which runs the opioid treatment program and other recovery and mental health services in Carbon, Emery and Grand counties.
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