Two months after Dallas asks feds to OK tool to fight fentanyl deaths, still no response | SharonFGrigsby
, especially as the fentanyl crisis grows in North Texas.
In her former U.S. Attorney’s role, Nealy Cox worked with Dallas County District Attorney John Creuzot to get overdose mapping in place. She still sees the tool as a smart way to “get a handle on this scary issue that we know is on our doorsteps.” Johnson also pointed out that Dallas, like other cities nationwide, is on the front line against drugs that “have cut short far too many lives, leaving behind shattered families and incomprehensible destruction to our society.”Since writing about overdose mapping, I hear almost weekly from interested readers who want to know if Washington has yet given the needed OK. They are as perplexed as I am about why this is so hard.
Teen overdose deaths in the U.S. more than doubled from 2010 to 2021, jumping from 518 to 1,146 deaths annually, according toLast month, Mayor Johnson joined Sen. John Cornyn and DISD Superintendent Stephanie Elizalde as they listened toSpecial Agent in Charge Eduardo Chávez spoke Thursday at the DEA Dallas Field Division Family Summit in Coppell.
As nightmares like these pile up, Dallas waits for Washington to say it can implement the same overdose mapping effort that our suburban cities seem to have had no qualms about launching.
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