We got to be hard on opioids. Well, it's the number one killer of. I'm probably going to get the age group wrong, but I'll give you an estimate … Fentanyl overdoses is the number one killer of young men, early 20s to early 40s. … why hasn't it been a Schedule 1 drug before? Why haven't we done that? One of the things that you're always doing as a lawmaker is in some ways, you're playing catch up. (12:33–12:36)
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