Editorial: Yes, fentanyl is killing Texans. No, Abbott’s Operation Lone Star won’t save them.

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Editorial: Yes, fentanyl is killing Texans. No, Abbott’s Operation Lone Star won’t save them.
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'If the governor really wanted to save Texans from fentanyl, he wouldn’t waste his time and our money arresting migrants at the border.'

of synthetic opioid-related overdoses in the past year, many of those due to fentanyl. Experts familiar with the synthetic opioid say the potent drug is now increasingly lacing other drugs, often unknown to the person using them.

Trouble is, there doesn’t seem to be much in the $4 billion-and-counting pet project that really addresses the way fentanyl travels across the border. That’s why when Payan sees news releases from law enforcement touting big busts, he takes those figures with a grain of salt. Recently, Mexico made a huge bust at a warehouse, seizing 542 kilograms of fentanyl,

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