Updated February 16 at 10:18 a.m. In a briefing last night, Governor Kevin Stitt and top energy officials announced Oklahoma was in the clear for rolling
Oklahoma family pushes for change after daughter unknowingly takes fentanyl, dies of overdose Share Updated: 7:54 PM CST Feb 9, 2021 Share Updated: 7:54 PM CST Feb 9, 2021
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Show Transcript JESSICA: A METRO FAMILY’S WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN. JUST DAYS BEFORE THEIR DAUGHTER’S BIRTHDAY, THEY LEARNED SHE PASSED AWAY FROM A ABIGAIL: IT TURNS OUT WHAT SHE THOUGHT WAS AN OXYCODONE PILL WAS REALLY A DEADLY FAKE. KOCO’S EVAN ONSTOT WITH THAT FAMILY’S LOSS AND THE DRUG NOW GETTING DEALERS CHARGED WITH MURDER. YOU HAVE NO IDEA THE IMPACT THAT YOU MADE ON MY LIFE. KEITH: AUGUST THE 6TH, IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 11:00 OR 11:30 AT NIGHT, I WAS ACTUALLY IN BED, AND THEY HAD CALLED MY WIFE’S PHONE TO INFORM US THAT SHE WAS AT THE EMERGENCY ROOM. EVAN: KEITH MONTGOMERY WILL NEVER FORGET THE NIGHT HE LOST HIS DAUGHTER, LEA MARIE. KEITH: THE DOCTOR CAME IN AND TOLD US THAT SHE HAD PASSED AWAY, AND IT WAS A FENTANYL OVERDOSE. EVAN: BUT FENTANYL
Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter has joined a chorus of attorneys general, including a group led by Austin Knudsen of Montana, in urging President Joe Biden to reverse his day-one order canceling the presidential Keystone XL pipeline permit.
House committee passes bill to make punishment for trafficking fentanyl more severe Share Updated: 6:41 PM CST Feb 10, 2021 Share Updated: 6:41 PM CST Feb 10, 2021
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Show Transcript UNANIMOUSLY PASSED THE HOUSE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE. IT WILL NOW GO TO THE FULL HOUSE. THAT COMMITTEE ALSO UNANIMOUSLY PASSING ANOTHER BILL TODAY. ABIGAIL: IT WOULD MAKE THE PUNISHMENT FOR TRAFFICKING FENTANYL MUCH MORE SEVERE. KOCO’S EVAN ONSTOT JOINING US, AND WE HAVE COVERED THIS AND UNFORTUNATELY WE KNOW THAT FENTANYL HAS BEEN AN ISSUE HERE IN OKLAHOMA. EVAN: YEAH, EIGHT PEOPLE DIED FROM OVERDOSES WITHIN ABOUT A WEEK LAST SUMMER, USUALLY IT’S PEOPLE WHO THINK THEY ARE TAKING ANOTHER DRUG LIKE OXYCONTIN. LAST NIGHT AT 6:00, YOU SAW THE STORY OF PARENTS GRIEVING THE LOSS OF THEIR DAUGHTER, WHO WAS SOBER FOR FOUR YEARS, BUT DIED, THEY BELIEVE, WHEN SHE RELAPSED AND TOOK A SINGLE PILL. THAT WOMAN’S FATHER ASKING FOR JUSTICE. THERE IS A TIME AND THAT T
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Oklahoma lawmakers took the first step in setting up a fund to pay for ongoing costs of abating Oklahoma’s opioid epidemic.
Senate Bill 610 would establish the Opioid Settlement and Judgement Revolving Fund. Sen. Greg McCortney (R-Ada) had his legislation passed out of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee he chairs on Wednesday.
Any future awards from lawsuits against companies that made, distributed or marketed the powerful, addictive painkillers would go into it. The fund will be invested by the state treasurer; 4% of that fund will be appropriated or, will be eligible to be appropriated by the legislature each year in perpetuity, McCortney said.