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Peter Welch: “This decision to start going to opioids is just a decision of hopelessness, a lack of hope.”

On the recordJune 18, 2019
This decision to start going to opioids is just a decision of hopelessness, a lack of hope.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch discusses the despair leading to opioid use in rural communities.

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