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Tammy Baldwin: “My first bill on fentanyl was introduced eight years ago.”

Featuring: Tammy Baldwin, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

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Wisconsin U.S. Senate Debate

Published | Video Starts at 49:03

And we have passed many sweeping reforms, particularly in the VA, that has reduced the number of these pills that are prescribed. Heroin came next, and then fentanyl. My first bill on fentanyl was introduced eight years ago. Eric Hovdy somehow thinks he's the first person who's ever focused on this problem. We need to get Narcan, the overdose reversal drug, deployed statewide. (49:03–49:07)

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