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Tim Kaine: “I think the equivalent of the opioid epidemic in terms of the scope and the number of lives it has touched is more like…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2016
I think the equivalent of the opioid epidemic in terms of the scope and the number of lives it has touched is more like HIV epidemic.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine compares the opioid epidemic's impact to that of the HIV epidemic.

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