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Along with West Virginia, Kentucky, and New Hampshire, Ohio has been ravaged by the opioid crisis. In 2016, 4,000 Ohioans died from drug overdoses. So far in 2017, 964 overdoses have been reported in Trumbull County, Ryan's home county. In one recent week in the county alone, 59 overdoses and five deaths were reported.
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Tim Ryan, Evan Jenkins lead push to curb infant mortality amid opioid epidemic

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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi made an unusual appearance to offer testimony Wednesday at a hearing devoted to tackling the opioid epidemic. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)
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Nancy Pelosi takes on rare role offering testimony in opioids hearing

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The two-term Republican governor chairs Trump's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Chris Christie: Trump’s delay in declaring the opioid crisis a national emergency is ‘not good’

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The medical examiners risk losing accreditation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Facing down America’s fentanyl epidemic

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First lady Melania Trump plans to visit Lily's Place, an infant recovery center in Huntington, W.Va., that treats babies who have been exposed to addictive substances while their mother was pregnant. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Melania Trump to visit drug treatment center for babies in West Virginia

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More recently, J.D. Vance's bestselling Hillbilly Elegy -- hailed as an exposition of white working-class social crises -- revolved around the relationship between Vance and his grandparents, who raised him as his mother struggled with drug addiction.
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Marc Veasey proposes tax credit for grandparents raising their grandchildren

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Health insurer Cigna announced Wednesday that beginning next year it would no longer offer coverage for the prescription opioid OxyContin. The company is notifying customers who are receiving the prescription so they can have time to discuss other treatment options with their doctors. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, file)
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Health insurer Cigna will no longer cover prescription opioid OxyContin

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Republicans, who failed again in the Senate to replace Obamacare last week, said Democrats won't admit that the law is failing while Democrats say Republicans want to take away healthcare from millions of people. But beyond Obamacare as a whole, the two parties do agree on many healthcare issues and have forged bipartisan consensus. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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Where Republicans and Democrats agree on healthcare

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First lady Melania Trump invited experts and people affected by addiction to opioids to the White House for a listening session and discussion about the epidemic. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Healthcare

Melania Trump lends ear at opioid roundtable

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If we want to effectively end this public health emergency, we must invest in first responders. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)
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