The Dallas Morning News Launches Transformative Series Examining Fentanyl’s Deadly Grip on North Texas
September 07 2023 - 3:30PM
DallasNews Corporation (Nasdaq: DALN) -
This September, The Dallas Morning News is investigating and
detailing the burgeoning fentanyl epidemic, known as the deadliest
drug threat in American history. The potent synthetic opioid has
been responsible for the overdose deaths of over 1,100 North Texans
since 2021.
More than two dozen News staffers spent months researching,
reporting, writing, editing, photographing and designing a
wide-ranging package about the deadly drug. “Deadly Fake: 30 Days
Inside Fentanyl’s Grip on North Texas,” tells in heart-breaking and
stark detail the rapidly growing crisis unfolding across the nation
and at home.
“Thirty days of a single topic is a significant undertaking for
any publication. But this is an urgent problem, and with no clear
answers, it’s incumbent on us to bring a new understanding of how
hazardous this drug is,” said Katrice Hardy, The News’s executive
editor. “This is where news organizations excel – telling the
truth, providing context and conveying solutions as we know
them.”
The series introduces readers to those affected by the most
potent, addictive, disguisable drug ever created and how it got to
North Texas. Meet families who have lost their children. Learn
about fentanyl’s swift and dangerous effects on the human body –
from as little as 2 milligrams, about the same as 10 to 15 grains
of table salt. This makes it 50 times more potent than a lethal
dose of heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine.
Understand how law enforcement and health care are learning to
handle an epidemic again.
Yet, there is hope. The power of knowledge and awareness has the
potential to mitigate the relentless spread of this mounting and
insidious problem and stop the trend of five Texans dying from it
every day.
Join us.
Fentanyl Tools and Resources
- Texas Targeted Opioid Response: A public health initiative
operated by the Texas Health and Human Services
Commission: txopioidresponse.org
- Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention: cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl
- National Institute on Drug Abuse facts on
naloxone: nida.nih.gov/publications/drugfacts/naloxone
- Partnership to End Addiction: Help is available via phone
(1-855-378-4373) or text (Text 55753). For details and more
resources, visit getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/find-help.
- North Texas Behavioral Health Authority: 24-hour crisis hotline
at 1-866-260-8000 or ntbha.org.
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Contact:Katrice Hardy, executive editor, The Dallas Morning
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