{"id":605769,"date":"2017-04-12T11:38:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=605769"},"modified":"2017-04-13T10:30:01","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T15:30:01","slug":"new-synthetic-drug-raises-concerns-as-dean-pushes-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=605769","title":{"rendered":"New Synthetic Drug Raises Concerns as Dean Pushes Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/dec6254228f27b5e1d52184ec4262ea1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/04\/dec6254228f27b5e1d52184ec4262ea1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-605770\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN &#8212; A new bill from an East Texas lawmaker aims to outlaw all synthetic drugs in Texas &#8212; and one of the newer ones is popping up around the Lone Star State.  &#8220;Pink,&#8221; &#8220;pinky,&#8221; or &#8220;U4&#8221; is a dangerous synthetic opioid and several times stronger than morphine. Terrie Mogavero, co-founder of East Texans against K2, says it&#8217;s toxic to the touch.  According to Mogavero, &#8220;Merely touching it, it can be absorbed through the bloodstream&#8230;It can send you into cardiac arrest.&#8221;  State Representative Jay Dean (pictured) of Longview has a bill that would outlaw all known compounds &#8212; but he notes it&#8217;s &#8220;more than likely&#8221; that something new will be found.  Dean says, &#8220;This is almost like&#8230;trying to keep up with the cellphone technology or computer technology; it changes.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN &#8212; A new bill from an East Texas lawmaker aims to outlaw all synthetic drugs in Texas &#8212; and one of the newer ones is popping up around the Lone Star State. &#8220;Pink,&#8221; &#8220;pinky,&#8221; or &#8220;U4&#8221; is a dangerous synthetic opioid and several times stronger than morphine. Terrie Mogavero, co-founder of East Texans against &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=605769\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Synthetic Drug Raises Concerns as Dean Pushes Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":605770,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-15 21:45:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=605769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":605772,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605769\/revisions\/605772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/605770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=605769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=605769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=605769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}