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On the recordOctober 24, 2017
Should we make that an illegal act? When Chairman Walden says some pharmacy in West Virginia gets 11 million pills...
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Joe Barton
Republican · Texas

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Barton questions if excessive prescribing of opioids should be criminalized.

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