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Lawsuit claims Park City police, school district hid details that may have prevented teen’s death in synthetic opioid crisis

A Park City father says police and school officials suspected his 13-year-old had access to the synthetic opioid “Pink,” but withheld that information in the days leading up to the boy’s fatal overdose in 2016.

In a lawsuit filed Monday, Robert Ainsworth says police officers instructed school officials and the father of another boy who died not to tell him that his son, Ryan, was believed to be at risk of using the drug, also known as “pinky” or “U-47700.”

The lawsuit also shares details of Ryan’s last days, when his parents turned to multiple health care providers and school officials amid rising panic in Park City over drug use following two other overdose cases involving local teenagers and a drug that most parents had never heard of.