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Shelley Moore Capito: “Our state has the highest amount of deaths from overdoses of…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 18:18

And so west I've really been trying to bring and help West Virginia University, Marshall University So if You look at something like addiction. Our state has the highest amount of deaths from overdoses of any state per capita, in any state in the union. It's not something we're proud of, but it's a fact. So if we're going to solve these problems, let's go where the problem is. (18:18–18:24)

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Asserts that West Virginia has the highest per capita overdose death rate in the U.S.

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