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An epidemic unmasked: 76 billion pain pills saturated the country
Newly released federal data provides an unprecedented look at the surge of legal pain pills that fueled the prescription opioid epidemic, which resulted in more than 100,000 deaths in a seven-year span.
NBC News aired the video, which it said was shot at the now-president’s Mar-a-Lago Club for a segment on the lifestyle of Trump, who was newly divorced.
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The actor was accused of groping a young man at a Nantucket, Mass., bar in 2016.
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Sen. Rand Paul (Ky.) used a procedural move to stall the bill, saying he wants to figure out how to pay for it. Sen. Mike Lee (Utah) also has placed a hold on the bill, advocates say.
The Tory voters — whiter, richer and older than Britain as a whole — want Brexit and Boris Johnson.
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