North Texas is not an exception to the widespread fentanyl issue that is besetting the entire country.
A presentation about the potentially lethal substance was given at Thomas Jefferson High School on Thursday evening by the Dallas Independent School District. Even though there were only a few people present on Thursday night, the message was clear and powerful.
The special agent in charge of the Dallas Field Division of the Drug Enforcement Administration is Eduardo Chavez. He has had similar conversations an infinite number of times, and each time he has done it with the same level of enthusiasm as the previous one.
When Chavez added, “Unfortunately, every time we go to one of these events, I’ll have a group of loved ones come to me and tell me their story,” he indicated that this was a common occurrence.
For several decades, he has been following narcotics traffickers and distributors throughout North Texas and beyond. Fentanyl, according to him, is something he has never seen before.
It is only two milligrams that is regarded to be a fatal dose.
It was just this month when Jason Villanueva, a fentanyl drug dealer, was convicted in Fort Worth for using Instagram to attract young people. Earlier this month, in Dallas, three defendants were sentenced to federal prison for their roles in a narcotics operation that resulted in the deaths of three teens.
“When it comes to fentanyl, these fatalities are young children, ranging in age from 12 to 24 years old,” he stated. Therefore, from the point of view of an educator, they are sometimes able to observe changes in behavior in their students, sometimes even before this is the case with the parents.
