Texas Responds to Fentanyl Crisis
Gov. Greg Abbott has signed into law four new measures designed to address fentanyl abuse in Texas. As Matthew DeLaCruz reports, these signings come after the governor declared fighting the fentanyl crisis an emergency item for the 2023 legislative session.
Within the last five years, foreign drug cartels and domestic dealers have saturated Texas with deadly, untraceable drugs laced with fentanyl – an opioid drug easily accessible in illegal drug markets. Since 2022, some 2,000 Texans have lost their lives due to illicitly manufactured fentanyl.
“Fentanyl is an epidemic that has taken too many lives,” said Abbott.
One measure will classify fentanyl deaths as murder for the purposes of prosecution, while another provides public universities with Narcan to respond to fentanyl and opioid overdoses.
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