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On the recordMarch 1, 2016
I want to go back to the opioid situation, and I mentioned the number of pills in Oregon, the 100 million pills prescribed for the population in 1 year of 4 million.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley raises concerns about opioid prescriptions in Oregon.

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