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Lisa Blunt Rochester: “Our nation is in the middle of an opioid crisis. There are an average of 130 Americans dying from an opioid overdose…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2020
Our nation is in the middle of an opioid crisis. There are an average of 130 Americans dying from an opioid overdose every single day.
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Lisa Blunt Rochester
Democratic · Delaware

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Blunt Rochester highlights the severity of the opioid crisis in the U.S.

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