We must do far more to address the national crisis of addiction that leaves so many households in despair as well as danger.

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Gov. Kathy Hochul cast the measure in unusually personal terms, saying she had felt “the pain of seeing someone you love suffer and feeling powerless to stop it.”

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In Rob’s hands, my most autobiographical novel rang true.