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Pat Ryan: If that rate of carnage were maintained for an entire year, one in every 375 individuals in my hometown would perish.

On the recordMarch 20, 2017
If that rate of carnage were maintained for an entire year, one in every 375 individuals in my hometown would perish.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Highlighting the severe impact of fentanyl overdoses in his district.

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