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US: Call the opioid crisis what it is: A national emergency (Opinion)
Durham Herald-Sun – August 04, 2017
“With approximately 142 Americans dying every day, America is enduring a death toll equal to Sept. 11 every three weeks,” the commission wrote in its report. “Your declaration will empower your cabinet to take bold steps and would force Congress to focus on funding and empowering the executive branch even further to deal with this loss of life.”
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