The governor is showing concern about overdose deaths as he faces scrutiny for mishandling gun violence, COVID-19 and the electrical grid. Texas GregAbbott fentanyl UvaldeMassacre TexasGrid CovidIsNotOver texasgop TexasPolitics GunControlNow
from guns and 6,195 San Antonians have died from COVID-19 — and counting. And who knows how many of us would keel over tomorrow if our air conditioners were to cut out?
Let's not, however, commit the fallacy of appealing to worse problems. Fentanyl is a big challenge and Abbott claims he's taking it seriously."I'm urging parents across the state right now to know that your kids are going to parties and at those parties pills are being traded and used," Abbott."And what you don't know, and what your child does not know, is whether or not a pill that they were given at that party, is laced with deadly fentanyl.
That's technically not true. You can easily tell whether a drug has been laced with fentanyl by simply testing it. But under the Texas Controlled Substances Act, such testing equipment is classified as"paraphernalia." That means, which are inexpensive and exceptionally accurate, are currently illegal in Texas.
State Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Dallas, introduced a bill in January 2021 to decriminalize fentanyl testing strips. The GOP-dominated Texas House quashed it. As a result what we actually have"no possibility of discerning," to quote the governor, is just how many of those 1,700 dead Texans would not have unintentionally overdosed had he and his party backed Crockett's legislation more than a year and a half ago.
For those struggling with addiction, Texas also"hasn’t expanded eligibility for Medicaid, so Texans with low incomes have limited access to recovery programs", as theOne almost suspects Abbott's focus on fentanyl is a diversionary tactic having little to do with harm reduction and much to do with beating a cheap drum over President Joe Biden's alleged"open border" policies.
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