Good morning, Houston. It's Tuesday.
☀️ Temperature check: High of 96; low of 79. Justin's insight: An approaching tropical low could give Houston its first day under 100 degrees since July, but rain chances remain iffy. Read more here.
🗳️ ICYMI: Yesterday was the final day to register as a candidate in Houston's November election. More than seven dozen people signed up to run in the City Hall elections, including 20 candidates hoping to become Houston's next mayor. Today's calendar: Houston City Council meets today at 9 a.m. Find the agenda here. |
 | Cat DeLaura
Audience Engagement Producer
cat.delaura@houstonchronicle.com |
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Today we're talking about the opioid overdose crisis... |
If you read one thing: At least 107,699 people died of drug overdoses in the U.S. between January and December 2022, a number that has more than doubled since 2015. Of those, 1,151 deaths were in Harris County and 5,429 in Texas. Across the U.S., drug overdoses have killed more than a million people since 1999. Looking at the data: In an effort to better understand the devastating public health disaster, the Chronicle developed this tracker using mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention, which bases its estimates on reports from coroners and medical examiners around the country. Use it to see how your county compares to others across the state and country and to understand the scope of the epidemic. The stories behind the numbers: - Dr. Mohammad Zare, medical director of the Office Based Addiction Treatment Program at Harris Health in Houston: "I had a young lady that came to me because she was afraid. She had 10 or 12 of her friends who all overdosed and died, and she knew she was next. So she came very frightened because she didn't want to die."
- Capt. Daniel Soto, an ambulance supervisor at Houston Fire Department Station 16: "When I was a paramedic, I remember I would give (naloxone) once a month, maybe once every couple months. … Now one of my jobs is to restock it for fire trucks and ambulances every day."
Read their stories here. - Dr. Lee Trope, the director of inpatient opioid treatment for youth at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose, California: "Most (teen patients) have tried to stop cold turkey, but they found withdrawal so intolerable, and treatment so hard to access, that they go back to using to just feel normal. Young people have told me that it's often easier to get fentanyl than to get help."
Read their story here. Explore the full project here. |
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Crypto: FBI warns Houstonians of the danger of cryptocurrency schemes, which have been on the rise in recent years, according to federal investigators. Title IX: A Baylor University alumna says the school's "dangerous" religious Title IX exemption puts LGBTQ students at risk. "A lot of people are losing hope," the student, Veronica Penales, said. "I lost hope in my four years to see something change positively for my community at my school. I loved Baylor enough to want to see it change, and it didn't. That gives me a lot of grief."
HISD: A team that supported students with autism and their teachers in classrooms across HISD has been disbanded under Superintendent Mike Miles as part of a broader restructuring plan.
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UH: Reggie Chaney, a forward on the University of Houston's 2021 Final Four team, passed away Monday. He was 23. Texans: Reporters Jonathan M. Alexander and Brooks Kubena predict who will make the 53-man roster for the second time. The scoreboard: Find more of our sports coverage here. |
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