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On the recordOctober 9, 2018
What people do not know is the role that fentanyl has played: a 4,000-percent increase in fentanyl overdose deaths in my home State in the last 5 years alone.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman highlights the dramatic rise in fentanyl-related deaths in Ohio.

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