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Ed Markey: “If people were dying from fentanyl across the country at the same rate that they are in the United States--in the State…”

On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
If people were dying from fentanyl across the country at the same rate that they are in the United States--in the State of Massachusetts, 75,000 people would have died from a fentanyl overdose in 2016.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey highlights the severe impact of fentanyl overdoses in Massachusetts.

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