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On the recordMarch 2, 2016
We are losing 47,000 people a year. In New Hampshire, we are losing more than a person a day due to drug overdoses.
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Jeanne Shaheen
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Shaheen highlights the severity of the opioid crisis in the U.S.

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