The synthetic opioid is rarely taken alone, and health care and law enforcement officials are dealing with multiple deadly drugs at once. Story by TexasTribune.
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And because opioids are often mixed with other drugs, there’s been a rise in deaths known as polysubstance overdoses. The mostThe most prevalent drug combinations were commonly prescribed pills, like hydrocodone and oxycodone, mixed with depressants like benzodiazepines and psychostimulants that include amphetamine and methamphetamine.
“That is the reason I caution very much against focusing on one drug,” Neill Harris said. “Fentanyl is certainly a big problem. But I don’t think it’s necessarily the last drug crime crisis that we are going to face.” The role of methamphetamine in the illegal drug market has been pushed aside in headlines as images of drug use in the South turned from exploding meth labs to potentially deadly fentanyl pills. But drug experts say“Meth is eating everybody’s lunch and nobody’s talking about it. Meth is crawling up on everybody,” said Peter Stout, president and chief executive officer of the Houston Forensic Science Center. “Meth fatalities are way up even if you look at the Texas numbers.
While marijuana is still popular in Texas, its role in the illegal drug market has diminished greatly as
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