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Vicky Hartzler: “Last year, we lost 72,000 people to drug overdoses, 72,000. That is more people than died during the entirety of the…”

On the recordJanuary 28, 2019
Last year, we lost 72,000 people to drug overdoses, 72,000. That is more people than died during the entirety of the Vietnam war.
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Vicky Hartzler
Missouri

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Hartzler highlights the tragic toll of drug overdoses in the U.S.

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