Executive Editor Katrice Hardy discusses how over the next 30 days, The Dallas Morning News will help North Texas readers understand the stunning extent of...
We’re going to spend the next 30 days telling the story of fentanyl’s devastation in our community. We hope you won’t be able to look away from the data, the science, the heartache and hope. This is why we are devoting the entire month of September to “Deadly Fake: 30 Days Inside Fentanyl’s Grip on North Texas.”
A minuscule amount, less than 15 grains of table salt, can kill. And it is easily pressed into counterfeit pills that look like the drugs we take to sleep or to relax.Executive Editor Katrice Hardy talks about our new series "Deadly Fake: Inside fentanyl's grip on North Texas" - and why it matters. Last year, fentanyl killed an average of five Texans every day, and almost 500 of them lived in North Texas.
“Not every teen will stick a needle in their arm, but pill-taking is more normalized,” said Dr. David Atkinson, a pediatric psychiatrist who heads Children’s Health’s outpatient program for substance abuse and mental health. “It looks so harmless. They think, ‘What’s different about this and something you would pick up at a pharmacy?’ ”“Everything they are taking that they think is Vicodin or Percocet or OxyContin — all of it ends up being fentanyl.
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