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Article: Salt Lake City emerges as an unlikely battlefield in war on drugs.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- July 25, 2000
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SALT LAKE CITY _ Pioneer Park was named for the clean-living founders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The neatly groomed common of shade trees and footpaths is six blocks from Temple Square, world headquarters of the Mormon faith.
It is also a prime location for scoring drugs.
"They're here if you want them," said Kathy Kennedy, 48, an admitted alcoholic and former heroin addict who has dabbled in cocaine and methamphetamine.
Unemployed for years, she was killing the afternoon in the park, as she does most days. "There's every kind of drug. This isn't different than any other city."
Salt Lake may be the last place ...