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Abbott signs bill toughening penalties on Texas fentanyl dealers
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill on Wednesday that would toughen penalties against fentanyl dealers.
Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill on Wednesday that would toughen penalties against fentanyl dealers.
The signing comes as Texas hospitals are seeing an alarming number of teen drug overdoses. They say many of them are linked to fentanyl, which teens are taking unknowingly, laced in black market pain pills.
"The number of lethal doses that just the DPS has seized is enough to kill every man, woman and child in the state of Texas," Abbott said.