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Vern Buchanan Wants More Funds for Drug Treatment in Next Coronavirus Stimulus Bill

Buchanan pointed to numbers from the Sarasota County Sheriff’s office showing 29 deaths due to opioids so far in 2020, up from 13 for all of 2019. Non-fatal overdoses in the county have also increased from 88 in all of 2019 to 121 in the first six months of 2020.
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Vern Buchanan’s, Marco Rubio’s Bill Hitting Mexico, China for Illegal Fentanyl Included in NDAA

A proposal from two Florida Republicans to crack down on fentanyl being brought in to the U.S. from China, Mexico and other nations was included in the final version of the National Defense Authorization...

Vern Buchanan: Time to Hold China Accountable for Fentanyl, Opioids

Even as drug overdoses continue to rise in Southwest Florida and across the nation, a Florida Republican is pushing Congress to do more to fight opioids.
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