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On the recordSeptember 17, 2024
It is September. It is Recovery Month. I have a son who is more than 11 years in recovery, and yet, I have friends who have lost sons and daughters to fentanyl poisoning, to overdose.
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Mary Gay Scanlon
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Scanlon shares personal experience related to the fentanyl crisis during Recovery Month.

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