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On the recordJune 18, 2019
I hear people say, 'Well, don't you just think you've got to wait for this generation to die out before the opioid epidemic will be over?'
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Robin Kelly
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Kelly challenges the notion that the opioid epidemic will resolve itself over time.

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