SALT LAKE CITY — Mysti Lopez grew up surrounded by a history of addiction that “runs deeply” on both sides of her family.
Her dad was a heroin addict and her mother struggled with methamphetamine addiction, according to Lopez, who said every member of her family was impacted by addiction in one way or another.
“Despite telling myself I’d never be like them, I eventually found myself walking the same path,” she told reporters at Cottonwood Park in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. “Heroin was my first escape, but fentanyl quickly followed. It was easy to get — too easy, in fact.”…