{"id":782637,"date":"2023-09-07T17:21:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/the-dallas-morning-news-launches-transformative-series-examining-fentanyls-deadly-grip-on-north-texas\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T17:21:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T21:21:10","slug":"the-dallas-morning-news-launches-transformative-series-examining-fentanyls-deadly-grip-on-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marketnewsdesk.com\/index.php\/the-dallas-morning-news-launches-transformative-series-examining-fentanyls-deadly-grip-on-north-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dallas Morning News Launches Transformative Series Examining Fentanyl\u2019s Deadly Grip on North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n 30 straight days of comprehensive coverage during September
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\n Unflinching look at the scope and scale of damage to schools, families, communities<\/em>\n <\/p>\n

DALLAS, Sept. 07, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DallasNews Corporation\u00a0(Nasdaq: DALN) –<\/p>\n

This September, The Dallas Morning News<\/em> is investigating and detailing the burgeoning fentanyl epidemic, known as the deadliest drug threat in American history. The potent synthetic opioid has been responsible for the overdose deaths of over 1,100 North Texans since 2021.<\/p>\n

More than two dozen News<\/em> staffers spent months researching, reporting, writing, editing, photographing and designing a wide-ranging package about the deadly drug. \u201cDeadly Fake: 30 Days Inside Fentanyl\u2019s Grip on North Texas,\u201d tells in heart-breaking and stark detail the rapidly growing crisis unfolding across the nation and at home.<\/p>\n

\u201cThirty days of a single topic is a significant undertaking for any publication. But this is an urgent problem, and with no clear answers, it\u2019s incumbent on us to bring a new understanding of how hazardous this drug is,\u201d said Katrice Hardy, The News\u2019s<\/em> executive editor. \u201cThis is where news organizations excel \u2013 telling the truth, providing context and conveying solutions as we know them.\u201d<\/p>\n

The series introduces readers to those affected by the most potent, addictive, disguisable drug ever created and how it got to North Texas. Meet families who have lost their children. Learn about fentanyl\u2019s swift and dangerous effects on the human body \u2013 from as little as 2 milligrams, about the same as 10 to 15 grains of table salt. This makes it 50 times more potent than a lethal dose of heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine. Understand how law enforcement and health care are learning to handle an epidemic again.<\/p>\n

Yet, there is hope. The power of knowledge and awareness has the potential to mitigate the relentless spread of this mounting and insidious problem and stop the trend of five Texans dying from it every day.<\/p>\n

Join us.<\/p>\n

Fentanyl Tools and Resources<\/p>\n