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Dave Sunday: “In law school, they don't teach you about addiction, but we…”

Featuring: Dave Sunday, Republican | Attorney General-elect of Pennsylvania

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Attorney General Dave Sunday Gives Commencement Speech at Widener University Commonwealth Law School

Published | Video Starts at 09:09

And so I ended up starting with in a courtroom, hoping for the best to ultimately prosecuting 21st degree murder, jury cases, attempted murders of police officers, murders of children. We did a tremendous, tremendous amount of work with the opioid epidemic. In law school, they don't teach you about addiction, but we had to learn really quick. We had to learn about addiction, about the mental health crisis. We had to learn about reentry. We had to learn about ways to decrease crime by helping people get opportunities and jobs. (09:09–09:13)

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