I don't need to tell anybody about the terrible impact of drug overdoses in this country, many of them caused by fentanyl. More Americans die of drug overdoses each year than the number of Americans who died in the entirety of the Vietnam War. Just three years ago, the New England Journal of Medicine estimated we were losing 22 teenagers every week to drug overdoses. 22 teenagers every week. (00:19–00:27)
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Asserts that annual drug overdose deaths in the U.S. exceed total U.S. deaths in the Vietnam War.
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