Corralling the Pills: Rural East Texas Counties Take on Big Pharma Over the Opioid Crisis

Travis Strickland has been fighting the war on drugs for more than a decade. He’s a sergeant in the Lufkin Police Department’s special services division, which includes the street crime and narcotics units. The job used to involve taking apart methamphetamine labs that sprouted like prickly pears around rural Texas. Then Mexican drug cartels took… Continue reading Corralling the Pills: Rural East Texas Counties Take on Big Pharma Over the Opioid Crisis