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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: “Around the time I was elected to Congress in 2004, south Florida was overrun by pill mills, so-called clinics where…”

On the recordDecember 16, 2020
Around the time I was elected to Congress in 2004, south Florida was overrun by pill mills, so-called clinics where anyone with cash could walk away with dangerously addictive opioids.
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Debbie Wasserman Schultz
Democratic · Florida

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Wasserman Schultz discusses the opioid crisis in her district due to pill mills.

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