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Joe Courtney: “28,000 people lost their lives to accidental overdoses, as you pointed out, in 2014.”

On the recordMarch 14, 2016
28,000 people lost their lives to accidental overdoses, as you pointed out, in 2014.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney highlights the opioid crisis and its deadly impact in his district.

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