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By Brent Scher, Washington Free Beacon

While appearing at a fundraiser hosted by a convicted drug dealer who was known as “the Pharmacist,” Hillary Clinton spoke on the urgency of addressing drug abuse problems in the United States and also the need to reform the criminal justice system.

“I have to tell you, I didn’t expect to be talking about [substance abuse] in my presidential campaign,” Clinton said in private remarks at a fundraiser in New York last week. “In 2013, we had more deaths by overdoses than we did with car accidents.”

“I am now a real believer that we can’t just walk away from this, we have 23 million people who are addicted,” she said.

Drug addiction was an interesting topic for Clinton to cover that night: her host, John Zaccaro, was convicted on felony drug charges after he sold cocaine to an undercover cop in Vermont. Although Zaccaro, the son of the former Democratic vice presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro, was a student at Middlebury College, he was no small-time drug dealer. He was known on campus as “the Pharmacist,” according to police.

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