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Maggie Hassan: “It's astounding that one paragraph jotted down in 1980 helped fuel the horrible epidemic that we are seeing today.”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2018
It's astounding that one paragraph jotted down in 1980 helped fuel the horrible epidemic that we are seeing today.
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Maggie Hassan
Democratic · New Hampshire

Editor's note · Context

Hassan highlights the impact of a misinterpreted letter on the opioid epidemic.

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