This ex-lawmaker's Texas drug bust was national news. Now he's found a new voice in recovery.

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This ex-lawmaker's Texas drug bust was national news. Now he's found a new voice in recovery.
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Ever since a 2019 drug bust, former Rep. Poncho Nevárez says he has maintained not just...

Former Texas State Rep. Poncho Nevarez at his home for lunch with his wife, Rossy, right, and daughter, Renata, in Eagle Pass, Texas, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. Nevarez hit a staggering new low when in 2019 he accidentally dropped an envelope full of cocaine baggies while at the Austin airport, the undeniable physical proof of an addiction problem that had been festering for months. Three years later, he's managed to take back control of his life.

By the 2019 session, it was Canales who was getting his friend’s voicemail and wondering why he wasn’t home. Former state Rep. Chris Paddie, R-Marshall, another good friend of Nevárez’s who entered the Legislature at the same time as him in 2013, was similarly caught off guard when he read the news about his arrest.

“Christmas tree bills,” or pieces of legislation that end up ornamented with tons of riders, are a common occurrence toward the end of session as lawmakers desperately seek Hail Marys on dying proposals. Nevárez was known for being especially deft at this.

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