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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…
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By early this summer anyone in Texas will be able to purchase a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose. The drug, naloxone, will be…
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The University of Texas at Austin is working to get a drug that stops people from overdosing on opioids, such as heroin and prescription pills, into the…
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State government has been slow to respond to a rise in opioid deaths in Texas. But, with an ongoing epidemic in the state, university students have taken…