We are losing a person a day to overdose deaths, three times as many as we lost in traffic accidents last year.
Jeanne Shaheen: “We are losing a person a day to overdose deaths, three times as many as we lost in traffic accidents last year.”
On the recordFebruary 24, 2016
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Shaheen highlights the severity of the opioid crisis in New Hampshire.
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