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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordApril 4, 2017
In 2015, opioids, including prescription drugs and illegal drugs such as heroin, killed more than 33,000 Americans, just surpassing death by firearms.
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Nita Lowey
Democratic · New York
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Highlighting the severity of the opioid epidemic and its death toll.

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