Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia represents the state with the highest drug death rate.

Senator Joe Manchin: Time for a new ‘war on drugs’ to tackle opioids

Senator Joe Manchin stepped onto the Senate floor last week to read a letter sent to him by Leigh Ann Wilson, a home caregiver whose 21-year-old daughter, Taylor, died from an opioid overdose last fall.

“Please work quickly to prevent thousands of other Taylors from the same fate,” Manchin read.