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Legal Emergency Analysis: Aurora Fire Rescue Launches Naloxone Leave-Behind Program as Opioid Crisis Impacts Texas Roads The sobering reality of the opioid epidemic is no longer confined to hospitals and private residences. It has spilled onto our highways, our interstates, and into the cabs of the commercial vehicles that drive the economy of Colorado City, Texas. This week, Aurora Fire Rescue launched a groundbreaking initiative: the Narcan Leave-Behind Program. By equipping every fire truck with naloxone kits to be placed directly in the hands of survivors and their families, first responders are fighting what Dr. Eric Hill, medical director for Aurora Fire Rescue, calls the number one preventable cause of death in the city. At Attorney911, we view this through the lens of 27+ years of trucking and catastrophic injury litigation. When emergency services are forced to treat the opioid crisis as an “almost daily emergency,” the implications for road safety are massive. Whether it’s an impaired driver on I-20 or a commercial vehicle operator struggling with addiction, the risk of a “legal emergency” has never been higher. If you or a loved one has been involved in a collision where impairment or emergency response was a factor, you don’t…