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Tom Harkin: “The only other point, just a very basic question. You talked about drug abuse being a chronic disease. How do we know it…”

On the recordMarch 19, 2007
The only other point, just a very basic question. You talked about drug abuse being a chronic disease. How do we know it is really a disease?
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa
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Mar 19, 2007

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Senator Harkin questions the classification of drug abuse as a chronic disease.

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