Gov. Greg Abbott’s effort to fight fentanyl has centered around his marquee initiative, Operation Lone Star, a nearly $10 billion effort to secure the border.
, lost her son, Tucker Roe, two years ago to fentanyl. The 19-year-old died after taking a fentanyl-laced pill he thought was Xanax to help him sleep. In June, she sat next to Abbott as he signed a law bearing her son’s name that mandates fentanyl awareness courses in schools.“The people in my community who understand what’s happening are very disappointed that the governor’s office is focusing on the ‘one pill kills’ campaign,” Turner said.
Harris, the drug policy expert, said she gives Abbott and the Legislature a grade of C-minus for the 2023 session. “Hopefully we will be able to curtail fentanyl,” he said. “If we need to come back and do more in two years, we will.”Abbott’s approach has been largely about law and order, which plays to his conservative Republican base.“It’s a strange reprise of the ‘war on drugs’ approach that seemed to have been de-legitimated for a while, but it’s found a new life in this kind of discourse,” said Henson, the University of Texas political scientist.
“The federal crime bill did a lot to lower street crime and other issues with crack cocaine,” he said. “You can’t be sympathetic to the drug dealer if you’re going to try to dry up fentanyl at a Friday night pool party.” Experts say being an addict these days is like playing Russian roulette, with illicit fentanyl the bullet in the chamber. Crawford, who lived in Southlake, died after overdosing on heroin, according to a medical examiner’s report. His widow says a toxicology report revealed fentanyl in his system.
Tina Crawford has become a major crusader in the fight against fentanyl since the overdose death of her husband, Brent Patrick Crawford. She is shown at her venue Paradise Cove at Lake Grapevine in Southlake on Friday, Aug. 25, 2023.
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