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# A Prescribed Crisis: Maternal Mortality
- URL: https://www.cascadepbs.org/movies/decibel-securing-your-vote-bipphe/extras/prescribed-crisis-maternal-mortality-ddyx0l/
- Published: 2026-02-11T20:06:42.000Z
- Updated: 2026-06-12T19:18:21.000Z
- Description: A look at how the state's high maternal mortality rate is tied to the opioid epidemic.
- Author: Cascade PBS Staff
- Tags: Decibel: Securing Your Vote, #ZZZ_Show_167e9b95-93e6-43d7-be23-0561107e33c4, #v1.7, #ZZZ_Extra_c08eb026-bf11-4524-8482-ad34a6261963, #movie-extra

Even though opioid abuse is tied to the high maternal mortality rate in Texas...there are few programs to help young mothers. But Decibel found one program in San Antonio that's having great success getting mothers off drugs and back with their families.