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Doctor: Under National Emergency, President Could More Easily Deploy 'Rapid' Responses To Opioid Crisis

05:10

August 01, 2017

Deborah Becker

A reporter holds up an example of the amount of fentanyl that can be deadly, after a news conference about deaths from fentanyl exposure, at DEA headquarters in Arlington, Va. (Jacquelyn Martin/AP)

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A preliminary report issued Monday by a presidential commission calls for a national emergency declaration due to the opioid epidemic.

Dr. Bertha Madras, of McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, joined Morning Edition.

This segment aired on August 1, 2017.

Addiction and the overdose crisis WBUR's Morning Edition

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Deborah Becker Host/Reporter
Deborah Becker is a senior correspondent and host at WBUR. Her reporting focuses on mental health, criminal justice and education.

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