Synthetic Drugs

Texas Standard: July 27, 2016

Glass ceiling shattered, so whats next? Texas Democrats and Republicans point to a possible challenge to Ted Cruz from a prominent Latino, we’ll explore. Also what’ll it take to sell Texas’ Bernie Sanders supporters on Hillary Clinton? What about Bernie himself? The former candidate makes the case personally to the Texas Delegation today, we’ll hear how that went down. Plus lawmakers thought they’d come up with a way to beat synthetic marijuana. But a new wave of overdoses in Houston suggests otherwise. Also 50 years after the Texas Tower Shooting, the state of gun violence and mental health. And the man in the hat, was he really all that? Those stories and lots more today on the Texas Standard:

Texas Standard: May 16, 2016

Is there a way to stop skyrocketing prescription prices? A Texas congressman calls for aggressive therapy, we’ll explore. Also should drugs developed with taxpayer support have the patents pulled when prices get too high? A Texas democrat rallies his colleagues to push the Obama administration to do just that. We’ll talk with him. Plus nine people were killed in the Waco biker shootout…and so far no one has gone to trial. One year later what we know—and what we don’t. And dog bites man is news once again…how to keep from being bitten, and what not to do. Those stories and more today on the Texas Standard: