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Search results for "Painkillers prevent pain responses in lobsters"

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Greg Murphy stated on April 10, 2017 in a speech:
"Every day, four North Carolinians die from a medication or drug overdose."
By Will Doran• April 13, 2017
Jeb Bush stated on January 21, 2016 in an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor:
"90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States."
By Clay Wirestone• February 4, 2016
Jeff Kottkamp stated on February 28, 2010 in an op-ed published in Florida newspapers:
"Nearly all of the top 50 prescribers of oxycodone in the United States are in Florida."
By Aaron Sharockman• March 9, 2010
Dan Lungren stated on July 28, 2009 in a speech on the House floor:
President Barack Obama suggested on national TV that the Democratic health care bill "will have government decide" that a healthy, 100-year-old woman in need of a pacemaker "should take a pain pill" instead.
By Louis Jacobson• August 3, 2009
Brad Schimel stated on March 12, 2017 in an interview:
In America, "more people die from" prescription narcotic painkillers "than from heroin and cocaine combined."  
By Dave Umhoefer• April 19, 2017
David McKinley stated on September 09, 2020 in a tweet:
"Nearly 800 million opioid pills were shipped to WV, amounting to 433 pills for every man, woman, and child in the state.”
By Camren Gandee, Julia Manley• October 15, 2020
Russ Feingold stated on September 06, 2016 in a radio ad:
Says Ron Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse.
By Tom Kertscher• October 26, 2016
Viral image stated on January 30, 2020 in an Instagram post:
Says John F. Kennedy “smoked cannabis in the White House, while president, because he suffered from severe back pain and Addison's disease."
By Tom Kertscher• February 7, 2020
Craig Miller stated on July 12, 2011 in a campaign launch message on his website:
"I've created over 40,000 jobs."
By Becky Bowers• July 19, 2011
Tammy Baldwin stated on September 26, 2018 in a campaign ad:
Says that after the overdose death of a Tomah VA veteran, she "brought both parties together to help pass a law" to "make the VA accountable and also to stop the overprescribing of" opioids.
By D.L. Davis• November 2, 2018
Greg Morris stated on March 13, 2014 in an article:
You can buy lobster with food stamps.
By Eric Stirgus• March 21, 2014
Pam Bondi stated on April 28, 2010 in a speech.:
I've shut down pill mills.
By Aaron Sharockman• August 11, 2010
Ryan Holets stated on August 25, 2020 in in a speech at the Republican National Convention:
“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”
By Julie Appleby• August 27, 2020
Brad Schimel stated on August 15, 2014 in an interview:
Heroin and prescription opioids are "the number one cause of accidental or preventable death in Wisconsin."
By Tom Kertscher• August 27, 2014
Senate Majority PAC stated on July 13, 2020 in a TV ad:
Says Susan Collins "voted against accountability for opioid makers” and denied taking campaign money from a family who made its wealth selling OxyContin.
By Tom Kertscher• August 14, 2020
Samantha Bee stated on May 10, 2017 in TBS show Full Frontal:
"In Florida felonies can be things like buying weed, tampering with an odometer or disturbing a lobster trap. So basically spring break."
By Amy Sherman• May 25, 2017
Chain email stated on October 19, 2008 in a chain e-mail:
Michelle Obama ordered $400 worth of lobster and caviar at a New York hotel.
By Angie Drobnic Holan• December 2, 2008
Brad Schimel stated on June 06, 2016 in an opinion piece:
"More people now die in Wisconsin from drug overdoses than car crashes."
By Cara Lombardo• July 8, 2016
Phil Bredesen stated on August 24, 2018 in a press release:
Says Marsha Blackburn "at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry, co-sponsored a law that weakened DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market."  
By Jon Greenberg• September 18, 2018
Facebook posts stated on June 14, 2021 in a tweet:
Says the Novavax COVID-19 vaccine “dumps millions” of dangerous “spike proteins right into your body.”
By Tom Kertscher• June 17, 2021

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