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Attorney General Ken Paxton is leading Texas into a lawsuit against Purdue Pharma for exacerbating the opioid crisis among Texans.In an announcement…
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From Texas Standard.President Donald Trump has declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency. The Texas Department of State Health Services says…
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The move stops short of declaring a national emergency, which the president had pledged to do.
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From Texas Standard:Texas House Speaker Joe Straus recently formed a new committee to study the problem of opioid addiction in Texas. The Select Committee…
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From Texas Standard:Pain is one of those things that is hard to wrap your head around - it's hard to measure, it varies according to your age and health…
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From the Texas Tribune: Faced with a rising death toll from opioid abuse, Texas public health officials in May decided to apply for a $1 million federal…
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Bill Gravell keeps a pair of camouflage boots in the backseat of his white pickup truck. They've been through pastures and farmlands, in the middle of…
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Last year more people died from drug overdose than from traffic accidents. The majority of these deaths involve opioids, whether that’s prescription…
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From Texas Standard:This morning, while most of us were sleeping, something happened in the state that might mean the difference between life and death…
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From the Texas Tribune: Just before his 25th birthday, Miles McEntee died of a heroin overdose last June in the Austin apartment he shared with his…