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Mike Gallagher
Mike Gallagher
stated on June 27, 2023 in Interview:
China sends “fentanyl into America killing 80,000 Americans a year.”
Half-True
By Sophia Voight • October 6, 2023
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on April 30, 2023 in an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union”:
"We pay by far the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs, in some cases 10 times more than the people of any other country."
Half-True
By Michelle Andrews • May 18, 2023
Paul Tonko
Paul Tonko
stated on March 20, 2023 in a press release:
“Individuals released from incarceration are 129 times more likely to die of a drug overdose during the first two weeks after release.”
Half-True
By Conor Amendola • April 26, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 26, 2022 in a Facebook post:
A molecule found in a Himalayan fungus "kills cancer cells with 40 times potency."
Half-True
By Andy Nguyen • February 15, 2022
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on December 19, 2021 in social media posts:
“More people, aged 18-45, died of Fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than covid, car accidents, cancer, + suicide combined.”
Half-True
By Louis Jacobson • December 23, 2021
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 16, 2021 in a press conference:
“That meth … it’s almost all coming across the southern border and it’s been accelerating for the last six months.”
Half-True
By Miriam Valverde • June 21, 2021
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 23, 2021 in News release:
"Over the past decade, drug prices have risen at three times the rate of inflation."
Half-True
By Haley BeMiller • April 7, 2021
Melissa Agard
Melissa Agard
stated on February 10, 2021 in Twitter:
"Youth usage of marijuana has actually gone down in states that have fully legalized.”
Half-True
By Madeline Heim • March 5, 2021
Congressional Leadership Fund
Congressional Leadership Fund
stated on September 25, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Says Sri Kulkarni attended “notorious desert drug parties” and was arrested for cocaine.
Half-True
By Noah Y. Kim • October 6, 2020
Duty and Honor
Duty and Honor
stated on August 7, 2020 in a campaign ad:
Sen. Steve Daines “voted to give billions in tax breaks to big drug companies even as they raised prices.”
Half-True
By Noah Y. Kim • August 25, 2020
John Cornyn
John Cornyn
stated on June 11, 2019 in a tweet:
"Texas remains one of the most severely impacted states from drug trafficking. Nearly 3,000 Texans died from drug related deaths in 2017 – with half being overdoses involving opioids."
Half-True
By Madlin Mekelburg • June 21, 2019
Cindy O’Laughlin
Cindy O’Laughlin
stated on February 14, 2019 in an opinion piece:
"When comparing state by state, the data clearly demonstrates that over 20 other states with (Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs) are still substantially worse off than Missouri in terms of curbing the effects of opioid abuse."
Half-True
By Madison Conte • May 2, 2019
Shelley Moore Capito
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."
Half-True
By Mylana Chico, Rebecca Jerome • February 22, 2019
Phil Scott
Phil Scott
stated on October 10, 2018 in campaign debate:
"We had a waiting list in Chittenden County when I came into office of about 700. ... We opened a new treatment hub in St. Albans, and it reduced that number to zero."
Half-True
By Lola Duffort • November 8, 2018
Chris Sununu
Chris Sununu
stated on June 26, 2018 in an interview:
"Every time they’ve done those border patrols, they’ve taken out people who have trafficked drugs. That’s the federal government’s role. They’re doing their job."
Half-True
By Ethan DeWitt • July 27, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 2, 2018 in during a BBQ :
"The bulk of the problem with the opioid epidemic is the fentanyl and all the synthetic drugs coming across the southern border."  
Half-True
By Allison Graves • June 7, 2018
Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
stated on November 22, 2017 in a press release:
"Fentanyl is now killing more Americans than heroin or any other opioid."
Half-True
By Tateanna McCaskill • December 22, 2017
Joe Manchin
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."
Half-True
By Allison Colburn • October 27, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 8, 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."
Half-True
By Amy Sherman • August 9, 2017
Tom Price
Tom Price
stated on May 10, 2017 in press conference about opioid addiction:
"I think if you look at the entire federal government and the president’s commitment to (fighting opioid addiction), you’ll see that there are actually hundreds of millions of dollars increase on this issue."
Half-True
By Ella Nilsen • May 26, 2017
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