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>> reporter: while the coronavirus faem pandemic did d much of our attention -- >> record death toll. >> reporter: for the first time on record, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in a 12-month period. in may 2020 and april 2021, much of it from fentanyl, a synthetic opioid. joe bidens new drug czar told me we need to employ harm reduction, making drug use safer, and testing drugs for the presence of fentanyl. >> people will say, youre enabling drug use. thats the provocation. as ...
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