… that are dealing with the scourge of the opioid epidemic, to see what we can do to try to bring that down. You know, more people died of gun violence, More people died of the opioid epidemic than of gun violence. I mean, at the height of the crack epidemic in the 90s, 80s and 90s, you may have had a couple thousand die in this country in the past two years. (13:27–13:31)
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