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An Oregon doctor and lawmaker, describes seeing a teenage boy, the same age as her own son, overdosing in a hospital. The teen accidentally took a pill laced with fentanyl. Dr. Maxine Dexter said that incident inspired her to work on Oregon’s Opioid harm reduction policies that passed in the state legislature. And now, she wants to take the same ideas, to the national level. Dexter is running for Congress in District Three, among the democrats competing in May’s primary election, for the chance to represent the party in November’s election. The winner will replace the retiring Earl Blumenauer, who’s held the job in congress for almost thirty years. So in this episode, we are focusing on Dr. and State Representative, Maxine Dexter: and what she wants to do if elected to Congress.