Senator Kelly Ayotte, Republican of New Hampshire, spent weeks promoting the anti-drug measure on the Senate floor after seeing opioid-related crime and addiction soar in her state.
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WASHINGTON — Responding to an urgent drug crisis that has contributed to more American deaths than car crashes, the Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a broad drug treatment and prevention bill, the largest of its kind since a law in 2008 that mandated insurance coverage for addiction treatment.










