Ayanna Pressley actually said...

My father, like millions of Americans, as someone who battled heroin addiction, opioid addiction, and was in and out of the criminal justice system, committing crimes to support that addiction.

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Pressley shares her father's struggles with addiction and the criminal justice system.

06/18/2019

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