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Maggie Hassan: “It is over a $500 billion epidemic impact in 2015 nationally in my home State of New Hampshire of 1.3 million people.”

On the recordMarch 6, 2018
It is over a $500 billion epidemic impact in 2015 nationally in my home State of New Hampshire of 1.3 million people.
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Maggie Hassan
Democratic · New Hampshire

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Hassan discusses the economic toll of the opioid epidemic.

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