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John Cornyn: “Fentanyl...is now the cause, the leading cause of death for…”

Featuring: John Cornyn, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Cornyn on Progress Made to Enact President Trump’s America First Agenda

Published | Video Starts at 06:06

… were actually consuming something else, a Percocet, some other relatively innocuous drug, only to find out the hard way that it was contaminated with fentanyl, a deadly drug which is Fentanyl...is now the cause, the leading cause of death for young people between the age of 18 and 45. We know where it comes from. The chemicals come from China. We know where it goes to be manufactured and made to look like relatively innocuous pills that are then taken by our young people. (06:06–08:16)

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Asserts that fentanyl is the leading cause of death for people aged 18 to 45.

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