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Eugene DePasquale: “We have to take this war on drugs and turn it into a battle…”

Featuring: Eugene DePasquale, Former Candidate, Pennsylvania Attorney General

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Published October 28, 2024 | Video Starts at 43:08

… and once in the left, who then ended up battling addiction and started dealing and had a ten and a half year federal prison sentence. Knowing that in some ways We have to take this war on drugs and turn it into a battle against addiction. That's why taking on this opioid crisis is personal to me. I also know what it's like to struggle. My brother Anthony had muscular dystrophy and because of that, we never had health insurance when we were kids. (43:08–43:12)

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Asserts a policy shift from a war on drugs to a focus on battling addiction.

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