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Ed Markey: This is just absolutely a crisis in our country. We would be losing two Korean War levels of Americans every single year…

On the recordJanuary 2, 2017
This is just absolutely a crisis in our country. We would be losing two Korean War levels of Americans every single year to fentanyl.
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Ed Markey
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Markey emphasizes the severity of the fentanyl crisis in the U.S.

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