The Legislature is wisely cooperating to legalize testing strips.
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.
As more of the drug pours into the country, legislators must take action. North Texans know first hand how deadly fentanyl is. The overdoses it has caused in schoolchildren around the area have devastated families. Our colleagues have reported about the teen deaths and hospitalizations linked to just one drug house in Carrollton. North Texans are also beginning to understand how much the fentanyl trade, with its roots in Mexican cartels, is tied to the area. Federal charges are now pending against a father and son in Plano who officials say are responsible for the largest fentanyl operation in the U.S.
