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On the recordMarch 7, 2016
what we have seen in 2014 is 47,000 Americans died from opiod and heroin overdoses.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Senator Shaheen highlights the alarming death toll from opioid and heroin overdoses in 2014.

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