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On the recordJanuary 31, 2016
Eighty percent of patients who had a non-fatal overdose were able to go back and get additional opioids prescribed by their caregiver.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Tim Kaine highlights the alarming rate of opioid prescriptions after non-fatal overdoses.

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