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Sanders Targets Opiate Epidemic During West Virginia Campaign Stop

HeadlineMay 06, 2016

In the race for the Democratic nomination, Clinton leads in the delegate count, but her rival, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, has vowed to remain in the race until the final primaries in mid-June. Sanders campaigned in West Virginia Thursday ahead of next week’s primary there.

Sen. Bernie Sanders: “We have a major crisis. We have an epidemic of opiate addiction and heroin addiction. I mean, what I heard this morning in McDowell County was that almost all of the crime down there in one way or another was related to drugs—people needing money to feed their habits going out and stealing and so forth and so on. Now, this is a crisis which we cannot turn away from. We’ve got to deal with it. But in my view, the most effective way to deal with that is to understand that addiction is a health issue, not a criminal issue.”

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