Law enforcement officials in Van Zandt County are aggressively working to track down the dangerous opioid after two recent student overdoses. The 13-year-old who overdosed on Monday is still in the hopspital.
Staff members were forced to use Narcan to revive a student who apparently overdosed on fentanyl at a middle school in Carrollton Wednesday. Plus, law enforcement officials in Van Zandt said a 13-year-old student who overdosed on Monday is still in the hospital.A rural North Texas community is taking extra steps to keep fentanyl away from children.
The district attorney in Van Zandt County, southeast of Dallas, said a new task force is aggressively working to track down the dangerous opioid.DEA warns of 'nationwide spike' of fentanyl-related mass overdoses across US The DA said the task force, which is made up of county and state law enforcement officers, found a large amount of pills at a home where people supplied fentanyl to a 13-year-old overdose victim.
"These people that sell fentanyl to our kids, they don’t go get prescription pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl. No, they sell the stuff that’s made in illicit labs, the stuff that kills. They know. They’re not stupid. They know that they sell stuff that kills to our kids," said Van Zandt County DA Tonda Curry.
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