WASHINGTON: There is one thing Hillary Clinton, the former first lady, senator and secretary of state, admits she has learned running for president: a heroin and painkiller epidemic is ravaging US communities, and it’s getting worse.

Her Republican rivals know it too. Several on the 2016 campaign trail have opened up about their personal connections to overdose tragedies.

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