Texas fentanyl fight is getting bipartisan support | Opinion
FILE - This undated file photo provided by the U.S. Attorneys Office for Utah and introduced as evidence at a trial shows fentanyl-laced fake oxycodone pills collected during an investigation. Congress has voted to temporarily extend a sweeping tool that has helped federal agents crack down on drugs chemically similar to fentanyl.
The drugs are generally foreign-made with a very close chemical makeup to the dangerous opioid. There are few issues so pressing now as protecting Texans from fentanyl overdoses. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data shows that fentanyl-related overdoses in our state rose by 399% between 2019 and 2021.North Texans know first hand how deadly fentanyl is. The overdoses it has caused in schoolchildren around the area have devastated families.
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