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Utah's Department of Health and Human Services already has authority to investigate communicable diseases and other public health hazards, and this bill explicitly confirms that drug overdoses and overdose deaths fall within that authority, while clarifying that nothing in this power overrides law enforcement's separate authority to investigate crimes. The bill also allows the department to use information from the medical examiner's death investigations to identify ways to prevent overdose deaths, intervene before they happen, and support "postvention" efforts (support and follow-up after a death occurs). Additionally, it specifies that when substance use disorder treatment records are shared with the medical examiner for a death investigation, those records remain subject to strict federal privacy protections limiting how they can be further disclosed or shared, in addition to any protections under Utah law.