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The New Yorker, Rachel Monroe | Last February, when a teen-age boy died of a fentanyl overdose in Kyle, Texas, south of Austin, local law enforcement hoped that it was…

“I wanted to know what they have done since she’s passed. Because we weren’t hearing really anything from the school. We need to educate the kids, They don’t view pills,…

The Texas Department of State Health Services has issued a health advisory notifying health care providers of reports that an animal tranquilizer called xylazine has been found mixed with illegal…

(CBS 19) — Texas officials are alerting the public of a highly dangerous drug combination making its way across the Lone Star State. “Xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat…

Almost a dozen teens in one Texas school district have overdosed on fentanyl in the past six months – with three dying – as it is revealed that pharmacies in Mexico border towns are…

(The Washington Post) — A 16-year-old Texas girl died of fentanyl poisoning after taking just one pill laced with the opioid, her parents and the teen’s school district announced Wednesday…

(Austin American-Statesman) — Tucker Roe, 19, had graduated from Leander High School, was working in his father’s construction business and planned to compete in his first triathlon. On Sept. 23,…

The Texas Senate passed a “Combating Fentanyl” bill Wednesday that would open the door for state prosecutors to charge fentanyl distributors with murder. Senate Bill 645, introduced by Sen. Joan Huffman, a…

(ABC 8) — PLANO, Texas — A Plano student died from fentanyl poisoning last month, according to the student’s family and a letter to families from Plano Independent School District officials this…