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Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) Discusses Opioid Crisis

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Kemp Chester Discusses WH Policy for Opioid Crisis

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Rep. Tim Murphy (R-PA) discusses injury in Iraq and receiving fetanyl patches for pain... compares deadly amount of Fetanyl to sugar packet

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Jesse Mechanic Discusses How One Gets Started Using Opioids

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Jesse Mechanic Discusses Origins of Opioid Crisis

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Q In an interview with STAT News this morning, Kellyanne Conway said she and other administration officials have been urging Congress to appropriate additional funding for the opioid epidemic. The President declared a public health emergency earlier this fall, but that fund only has $57,000 in it. Economists have predicted that it will cost upwards of $190 billion over a decade to treat the crisis. Can you tell us how much money the White House will be urging Congress to appropriate? And what do you have to say to critics who believe that the President hasn’t dedicated enough resources to combatting the epidemic this year? MS. SANDERS: Look, one of the reasons that the President has put one of his top people here at the White House, Kellyanne Conway, on this is because he sees this as a priority; he sees it as a major concern, not just for the White House, but certainly for America. There’s a number of stories, as you just said. The amount of money that it will take to comba

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