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Rob Portman: “Sixty percent of the people who died in Ohio of overdoses, in the most recent data we have, died of fentanyl…”

On the recordApril 18, 2018
Sixty percent of the people who died in Ohio of overdoses, in the most recent data we have, died of fentanyl overdoses--carfentanil, fentanyl, other synthetic opioids.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman highlights the severity of the opioid crisis in Ohio.

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