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Patty Murray: “Despite the still escalating crisis of opioid and heroin addiction, it cuts funding for prevention and treatment…”

On the recordJune 14, 2017
Despite the still escalating crisis of opioid and heroin addiction, it cuts funding for prevention and treatment programs by $84 million.
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Patty Murray
Democratic · Washington

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Murray highlights the detrimental cuts to opioid addiction treatment funding.

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