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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

Ohio Congresswoman Marcia Fudge addresses Trump's declaration of the opioid crisis as a public health emergency and urges support for her bill dubbed 'The Breaking Addition Act of 2017'....Rep Fudge represents parts of Cleveland and is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio....Fudge said that "while I support the administration's decision to focus on the opioid crisis, more can be done to provide greater access to treatment."...Eighty-six percent of deaths from drug overdoses in Ohio in 2016 are attributed to opioids, a crisis that has hit White America with a vengeance, though it impacts people across racial and socioeconomic lines....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com, Ohio's most read digital Black newspaper and Black blog with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com

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Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge ClevelandUrbanNews.Com and the KathyWrayColemanOnlineNewsBlog.Com , Ohio's most read digital Black newspapers with some 5 million readers on Google Plus alone. And the ClevelandUrbanNews.Com website stats reveal some 26 million hits since 2012. Tel: (216) 659-0473. 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 LEA DER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS . CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM- WASHINGTON, D.C.–  Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat who leads Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes the majority Black major American city of Cleveland, issued a press stateme