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Ron Johnson: “We're losing 100,000 people a day to drug overdoses.”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Published | Video Starts at 01:53

Well, to the extent that you can reduce the flow dramatically, reduce the flow of deadly drugs, that helps people. I mean, We're losing 100,000 people a day to drug overdoses. not just from Venezuela, but that's certainly one of the, the source countries. The fact that we've had global adversaries, China, Russia, Iran, Cuba operating out of Venezuela is not good for our hemisphere. (01:53–01:58)

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Asserts that 100,000 people die daily from drug overdoses.

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