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Featuring: Shelley Moore Capito, Republican | U.S. Senate West Virginia

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Sen. Shelley Moore Capito Discusses New Fentanyl Legislation and Its Impact in West Virginia

Published | Video Starts at 00:33

The penalties are much higher, there's a much stricter enforcement around it and also the look alikes because people are going one offs from fentanyl and creating other types of drugs. It will also, I think, allow for the innovation to occur to make sure that the research around these drugs is up to date so that they can be recognized and stopped. And it will help with our law enforcement as well to be able to halt the flow of fentanyl into this country. (00:33–00:45)

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Asserts that the legislation will promote updated research on fentanyl and similar drugs.

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