Becky Tinney, the director of special projects at the Recovery Resource Council, joined Good Day to talk about the team's launch in Dallas and the tools they use to help. Response team moves to DFW to help fight fentanyl overdosesĪ new overdose response team in North Texas is hoping to offer a lifeline to those struggling with the increasing dangers of the powerful illegal drug fentanyl. Those drugs were tied to overdoses in Lewisville ISD. Recently, a fourth alleged fentanyl dealer was arrested. Three students died, including a 14-year-old student at Long Middle School. RELATED: Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD takes steps to address student fentanyl abuse following overdose deaths

This year, in Carrollton- Farmers Branch ISD, three people were arrested for using students to sell deadly drugs on the campuses of RL Turner High School and two middle schools. They are also being sold on school campuses. In 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration said it seized more than 11 million deadly doses of fentanyl. They didn’t know it was fentanyl,' Stephanie said. Sienna’s parents said they later learned their daughter bought a pill from someone who told her it was Percocet, a prescription pain med. It’s just lack of knowledge, lack of knowledge,' Stephanie said. READ MORE: Man arrested in Plano after officers find 6,000 fentanyl pills in his car Sienna Vaughn thought it was a common painkiller, instead, it had a deadly dose of fentanyl. The teen’s official cause of death was fentanyl poisoning.įULL INTERVIEW: Parents of Plano teen who died from fentanyl hope sharing her story will help others 'They tried everything they could,' Sienna’s mother said. Sienna’s friend survived, but Sienna did not. I tried to do a couple compressions on the bed, and it wasn’t working, so I picked her up, put her on the floor and I just started doing CPR.' 'I immediately said, ‘Call 911, call 911.’ I jumped over her friend. Her lips were already turning blue,' she recalled.

Her friend was making this weird gurgling noise and I saw Sienna and she was just so pale. 'And so I walked up to her room, knocked on the door…she didn’t answer, opened the door, and I found her and her friend laying on the bed. Later on, Sienna’s mother went to check on them. 'They were just like having a great time downstairs, eating snacks, goofing off,' Stephanie said. Sienna was home with a friend on Sunday, February 19. She’d go out with her friends all afternoon and thrift and get fast food. That was our like bonding activity,' Sienna’s father, Ryan, added.

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