Texas community mourns teen's fentanyl overdose death and grapples with epidemic.
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A 16-year-old Texas girl died of fentanyl poisoning after taking just one pill laced with the opioid, her parents and the teen’s school district announced Wednesday — the latest in a wave of teen overdoses in the state sparking lawmakers to call for schools to increase education surrounding the drug. Sienna Vaughn, a junior at Plano High School in Plano, Tex., took a pill Feb. 19 that she got from a friend that she thought was Percocet, a prescription painkiller she believed could help her relax, the girl’s family wrote on a memorial website for her.
- Texas teen Sienna Vaughn dies of fentanyl as parents, politicians battle opioid overdose wave The Washington Post
- After a wave of teen fentanyl overdoses, a Texas community grapples with shock and anger at the epidemic's toll NBC News
- Parents of Plano teen who died from fentanyl hope sharing Sienna's story will help others FOX 4 Dallas-Fort Worth
- Plano ISD student dies from 'fentanyl poisoning,' says district WFAA.com
- Plano ISD officials address recent Plano High student's death from lethal amount of fentanyl Star Local Media
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