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Joe Manchin: “Doctors are handing it out like candy, and we've changed that from Schedule 3 to Schedule 2 and opiates.”

On the recordApril 20, 2015
Doctors are handing it out like candy, and we've changed that from Schedule 3 to Schedule 2 and opiates.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Senator Manchin criticizes the over-prescription of opioids by doctors.

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