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Meghan Peterson

Meghan Peterson is an MPH candidate at the Brown School of Public Health in Providence, Rhode Island.

Public health advocates are concerned that ‘Kristen's Law,’ meant to punish drug dealers, will criminalize users and fail to stem the opioid crisis.