Clinton downplays personal ties in discussing US overdose deaths
New York
IT has become a recurrent moment in Hillary Clinton's speeches as she campaigns for the presidency: softening her voice to a hush, she says she wants to end the "quiet epidemic" of Americans dying from overdoses of painkillers and other drugs.
Often, she remarks how surprised she is to find herself discussing the problem, which is now among the leading causes of injury death in the US. Prescription painkiller overdoses alone kill an average of 44 people each day according to the federal government. Several of her rivals for the presidency have said that they plan to do something about it if elected in November 2016.
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