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Diana DeGette: “In Colorado, my home State, the rate of prescription overdose deaths has quadrupled in the last 10 years.”

On the recordApril 22, 2015
In Colorado, my home State, the rate of prescription overdose deaths has quadrupled in the last 10 years.
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Diana DeGette
Democratic · Colorado

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DeGette points out the alarming increase in prescription overdose deaths in Colorado.

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