Only 56 percent of college-age kids are aware that fentanyl is in fake pills’
A new Texas law adds colleges and universities to the list of institutions that the state can provide opioid antagonists to through the state’s Health and Human Services Commission.
More than 11,000 college students use cocaine on a daily basis, and nearly 5,000 students use heroin equally as much; these are also the two drugs most likely to be “diluted with fentanyl,” according to a Texas legislature analysis of the bill, S.B. 867.
The analysis added the situation provides “ample reason to make certain that institutions of higher education are properly enshrined in this statute for the purpose of ensuring those institutions may receive distributions of opioid antagonists.”
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