Three high schools and two middle schools in the Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD have had at least one student suffer an overdose from the illegal drug in the past six months.
As the addiction and overdose crisis that has gripped the U.S. for two decades turns even deadlier, state governments are scrambling for ways to stem the destruction wrought by fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
The U.S. needs a nimble, multipronged strategy and Cabinet-level leadership to counter its festering overdose epidemic, a bipartisan congressional commis