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Armstrong & Getty On Demand

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🗓️ 27 October 2017

⏱️ 37 minutes

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0:00.0	music
0:23.6	Families, communities and citizens across our country are currently dealing with the worst
0:29.8	drug crisis in American history and even if you really think about it world history.
0:37.8	It is something the numbers are just amazing.
0:40.3	I mean it's more than car wrecks.
0:42.4	It's more than all kinds of stuff that we worry about regularly the number of people that
0:45.5	are dying from this opioid stuff.
0:47.0	And what is it 125 a day or something?
0:49.4	Yeah, Chris Christie was, Governor Chris Christie was making the point that we have a 9-11
0:55.5	every two weeks I think is the number.
0:57.5	Wow, that's a hell of a way to put it.
0:59.3	That is to make the point that there are places where they don't know where to put the
1:05.4	bodies.
1:06.4	There are places where firefighters spend way more time dealing with overdoses than they
1:11.0	do with fires.
1:12.0	I mean, it's not even close.
1:13.2	Why you call them firefighters that you're there.
1:14.8	They're overdose respondents.
1:16.8	Yeah.
1:17.8	And a lot of cities across America, which is it's amazing.
1:20.8	Yeah, it's funny.
1:22.4	I'm so torn on this because are we bearing the lead the president declared it a national
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