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Michael Burgess: “On the average, 115 Americans die every single day from an overdose of an opiate.”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2018
On the average, 115 Americans die every single day from an overdose of an opiate.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess highlights the opioid epidemic's severity and daily death toll.

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