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Tammy Baldwin stated on January 21, 2024 in X, formerly Twitter:

“Wisconsin had over 1,400 opioid overdose deaths in 2022.”

By Laura Schulte• February 6, 2024

Lyle Larson stated on November 12, 2020 in a tweet:

Says there’s “up to 75% reduction in opioid dosage for medical cannabis users.”

By Brandon Mulder• November 20, 2020

Josh Stein stated on August 03, 2021 in a Council of State meeting:

“More people have died of an opioid overdose in North Carolina in recent years than have died of COVID.”

By Paul Specht• August 6, 2021

Joe Biden stated on April 11, 2019 in a panel at the University of Pennsylvania:

"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."

By Amy Sherman• April 16, 2019

Donald Trump stated on May 29, 2018 in a Republican rally in Nashville, Tenn.:

"We got $6 billion for opioid and getting rid of that scourge that’s taking over our country. And the numbers are way down."

By Jon Greenberg• May 31, 2018

Matt Gaetz stated on October 17, 2017 in a tweet:

"Opioid crisis (is) the worst in ObamaCare expansion states!"

By Allison Graves• October 23, 2017

Richard Cordray stated on June 04, 2018 in an event in Springfield:

On Mike DeWine's record as attorney general: "Opioid deaths have tripled on his watch and there have been cuts to funds for first responders and people in the community fighting the crisis."

By Amy Sherman• June 12, 2018

Eric Schmitt stated on November 25, 2019 in a roundtable:

"You have literally 140 people dying every day of opioid-related overdoses."

By Madison Czopek• December 31, 2019

Catherine Cortez Masto stated on August 18, 2022 in an ad:

Adam Laxalt took “campaign cash” from drug companies “and used his office to block local attempts at holding one of the worst offenders accountable.”

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 23, 2022

Nate McMurray stated on August 18, 2018 in a statement on his campaign website:

"Evidence is mounting that marijuana legalization reduces opioid addiction numbers."

By Jill Terreri Ramos• August 31, 2018

Eric Schneiderman stated on September 19, 2017 in an announcement:

Some states hit hardest by opioid deaths "have more opioid prescriptions than residents."

By Dan Clark• October 2, 2017

Shelley Moore Capito stated on January 22, 2019 in a tweet:

"Thanks to successful federal, state, and local efforts, preliminary statistics show opioid overdose deaths are down 8.5% in West Virginia."

By Mylana Chico, Rebecca Jerome• February 22, 2019

Richard Ojeda stated on October 24, 2018 in a video posted to Facebook:

"We have lost more lives in the last two years" due to opioids "than all of the lives lost during the Vietnam War."

By Douglas Soule• November 15, 2018

Elizabeth Warren stated on July 13, 2017 in a video:

"One in three people who’s receiving treatment for (opioid) drug problems gets some help from Medicaid to pay for that."

By Manuela Tobias• July 18, 2017

Joe Manchin stated on October 22, 2017 in An MSNBC interview:

Says West Virginia is "down to around 50 percent of the adult workers who are actually working now because of addiction or conviction."

By Allison Colburn• October 27, 2017

Ryan Holets stated on August 25, 2020 in in a speech at the Republican National Convention:

“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”

By Julie Appleby• August 27, 2020

Andrew Cuomo stated on June 22, 2016 in a press conference in Buffalo before signing legislation to combat heroin addiction.:

"We’re losing as many people to heroin and opioid overdoses as we lost to the AIDS epidemic at its peak."

By Dan Clark• July 8, 2016

Donald Trump stated on August 08, 2017 in a briefing on opioids:

"At the end of 2016, there were 23 percent fewer federal prosecutions than in 2011, so (prosecutors) looked at this scourge (opioid deaths) and they let it go by."

By Amy Sherman• August 9, 2017

Russ Feingold stated on September 06, 2016 in a radio ad:

Says Ron Johnson "has essentially done nothing" to fight heroin addiction and opioid abuse.

By Tom Kertscher• October 26, 2016

Claire McCaskill stated on November 22, 2017 in a press release:

"Fentanyl is now killing more Americans than heroin or any other opioid."

By Tateanna McCaskill• December 22, 2017

What HHS Secretary Tom Price said about opioid addiction treatment

By Miriam Valverde• May 26, 2017

Donald Trump declares public health emergency over opioid crisis. Here’s what that means

By Miriam Valverde• October 30, 2017

Opioid epidemic shifts from prescription painkillers to street drugs

By Jon Greenberg• October 14, 2019

Is fentanyl the leading cause of death among American adults?

By Nusaiba Mizan• October 3, 2022

What we know about opioids, declared by Trump as a public health emergency

By Tom Kertscher• October 26, 2017

What is fentanyl? The facts and myths on the synthetic opioid driving drug overdoses

By Grace Abels, Maria Ramirez Uribe• August 21, 2025

A closer look at Patrick Morrisey's family ties to 'big pharma'

By Louis Jacobson• March 27, 2018

Will a border wall stop drugs from coming into the United States?

By Miriam Valverde• October 26, 2017

PolitiFact fact-checks West Virginia's GOP Senate primary

By Louis Jacobson• May 7, 2018

What are fentanyl patches? Does Narcan work for fentanyl overdoses? Here's what to know

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 8, 2023

Misinformation about fentanyl exposure threatens to undermine overdose response

By Henry Larweh• April 10, 2025

In Maine Senate race, the candidates get personal, and even their husbands are targets for attacks

By Tom Kertscher• October 30, 2020

Did Cabell County, W.Va., cut overdoses by 40 percent?

By Catherine Harrington, Madison Weaver• March 19, 2019

Fentanyl deaths are up, but GOP ads mislead by blaming ‘open borders,’ migrants crossing illegally

By Tom Kertscher• October 28, 2022

Common myths about fentanyl debunked: No, you can’t accidentally overdose by touching fentanyl

By Maria Ramirez Uribe• September 4, 2023

The top 10 storylines of the 2018 midterms

By Angie Drobnic Holan• October 31, 2018

Health care stayed front and center at Democratic debate

By Emmarie Huetteman• October 16, 2019

Checking claims in Iowa Gov. Reynolds’ sixth Condition of the State address

By Emily Delgado, Liam Halawith, Sabine Martin, Lauren White• January 12, 2023

Desmintiendo mitos sobre el fentanilo: No, no va tener una sobredosis por tan solo tocar fentanilo