Legalizing fentanyl test strips is only step one, advocates say.
Veronica and Daniel Kaprosy drove in from Selma, Texas to “make fentanyl poisoning visible. Our daughter, Danica, was 17 years old when she passed away in July of 2022.”
The attending crowd – most wearing purple THRA shirts, some holding signs commemorating lost family members – heard lawmakers agree, flagging their efforts to expand access to Narcan, affordable housing, safe syringe programs, and mental health care. Sen., D-Dallas, who filed the original 2015 bill decriminalizing possession of opioid antagonists like Narcan, highlighted his SB 868, which would legalize fentanyl test strips. Rep.
After the speeches, purple coated the South Lawn of the capitol in a die-in, commemorating the estimated 5,000 Texans that died last year from overdose, per the CDC. Since 2019, Texas fentanyl overdose deaths have increased almost 500%. Theheard several individuals’ personal stories of losing loved ones to fentanyl poisoning: Austinite Chelsie Eades’ fiancé “and best friend of 16 years” Cameron died trying to take oxycodone, which was laced with fentanyl unbeknownst to him.
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