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Congress passes U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown's INTERDICT Act, a bi-partisan bill to address the opioid epidemic that allocates $15 million for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to buy and use portable screening equipment to detect fentanyl before it enters the United States....Ohio is among one of the hardest hit states relative to the opioid epidemic with some 4,000 deaths from overdoses in 2016 alone, up 33 percent from 2015.....Overdose deaths are predicted to reach a figure of nearly 825 by the end of 2017 in Cuyahoga County, which includes the largely Black major metropolitan city of Cleveland, an increase of 25 percent from 2016....Senator Brown is a Cleveland Democrat....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com , Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million views on Google Plus alone.Tel: (216) 659-0473 and Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief, and who trained for 17 years at the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview, CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-WASHINGTON, D.C - The U.S. congress on Thursday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that allocates $15 million for U.S. Customs and Border Protection to buy and use portable screening equipment to detect fentanyl before it enters the United States, a  bill co-sponsored by Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Cleveland. Feten...