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All right, well let's listen
here to the video at the Democratic

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National Convention on this issue.

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You know, when I came here to New Hampshire

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the first time in this campaign and
heard about the heroin epidemic

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The growing drug problem in our area...

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We're all losing fathers, brothers, sons, mothers...

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The numbers of people who are being affected

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If you have been impacted by your own or
someone else's use of substances, would

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you just raise your hand?

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I didn't even know what was wrong with me until I

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found out that I was I was an addict.

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This problem touches everybody...

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My children suffered, my family suffered...

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Meeting grandmothers raising their grandchildren...

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All of my friends are raising
their grandchildren because of addiction

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I think you're very brave and
very loving to take on this responsibility.

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It is plaguing families.
I don't want to

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go to more funerals. I'm going to one this weekend.
I didn't know if I wanted

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to do better. Addiction had full control
over my heart and soul.

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I wouldn't have necessarily known that if I hadn't been
sitting in a little cafe in Keene

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listening to people tell me about what
was breaking their hearts and what they

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wanted their president to know.

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We need the voice of those who are using, that is

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the way in which we can make an impact
on this disease.

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We can't walk away from these stories.

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These are our children, these are our friends, our neighbors,

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our loved ones. This is not something we can
just brush under the rug and wish it would

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go away. We need to drag it out of the
shadows, we need to hold it up to the light

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Everybody should feel that they are

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valued, they are cared about, and they
have a president who sees them