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Richard Blumenthal: “On the issue of prescription drugs, particularly pain killers and opioids, is there an ongoing danger in the military…”

On the recordFebruary 22, 2016
On the issue of prescription drugs, particularly pain killers and opioids, is there an ongoing danger in the military as, frankly, there is in the civilian world of over-prescription and over-reliance on pain killers?
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal raises concerns about the risk of over-prescription of painkillers in the military.

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