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Rand Paul
Rand Paul
stated on October 19, 2025 an interview
“About 25% of the time the Coast Guard boards a ship, there are no drugs.”
Mostly True
By Samantha Putterman • October 22, 2025
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on February 1, 2024 Facebook post
“Big drug companies charge as little as $7 for an inhaler overseas and nearly $500 for the exact same one here in the US.”
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • February 23, 2024
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on December 12, 2023 a CNN town hall
Florida “had a year-over-year reduction” in overdose deaths.
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • December 14, 2023
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 5, 2023 a tweet
“Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for Americans 18-45.”
Mostly True
By Aarón Torres • April 24, 2023
Charles Schumer
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 a news release
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
Mostly True
By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
West Virginia Republican Party
West Virginia Republican Party
stated on August 23, 2022 a tweet
“More fentanyl has crossed the border in the last two months under Biden than in 2019 under Trump.”
Mostly True
By Megan Bevins, Pearse Costello • October 3, 2022
Tim Ryan
Tim Ryan
stated on July 19, 2022 an ad
Instead of fighting opioid addiction, a nonprofit founded by J.D. Vance paid his “top political adviser” and funded “political polling.”
Mostly True
July 27, 2022
Claudia Tenney
Claudia Tenney
stated on April 1, 2022 a press release
In 2021, “11,201 pounds of fentanyl were seized by Customs and Border Protection, which is enough to kill every American nearly seven times over.”
Mostly True
By Elizabeth Egan, Marnique O. Panepento • April 27, 2022
Sarah Godlewski
Sarah Godlewski
stated on February 18, 2022 Campaign statement
"Here in Wisconsin, prescription drug costs grew at a pace of nearly twice as much as the average Wisconsinite's income from 2015-2019."
Mostly True
By D.L. Davis • March 8, 2022
John McGuire
John McGuire
stated on December 3, 2021 a radio interview.
“Overdoses in Virginia (are) up 35%.”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • December 14, 2021
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on August 19, 2020 an interview with the Washington Examiner
“Now with the COVID-19 … more people are dependent on drugs or alcohol.”
Mostly True
By Delaney Geiger, Julia Maltby • October 28, 2020
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on September 9, 2020 a tweet
"Nearly 800 million opioid pills were shipped to WV, amounting to 433 pills for every man, woman, and child in the state.”
Mostly True
By Camren Gandee, Julia Manley • October 15, 2020
Ryan Holets
Ryan Holets
stated on August 25, 2020 in a speech at the Republican National Convention
“Drug overdose deaths decreased in 2018 for the first time in 30 years.”
Mostly True
By Julie Appleby • August 27, 2020
Carol Miller
Carol Miller
stated on July 30, 2020 a tweet
“In West Virginia alone, overdoses have increased by 50% during the #COVID-19 pandemic.”
Mostly True
By Patrick Orsagos • August 19, 2020
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on December 11, 2019 a tweet
"Prescription drug companies are charging Americans prices that are on average 4x higher than what's charged in other countries."
Mostly True
By Mica Soellner • March 5, 2020
Eric Schmitt
Eric Schmitt
stated on November 25, 2019 a roundtable
"You have literally 140 people dying every day of opioid-related overdoses."
Mostly True
By Madison Czopek • December 31, 2019
Kellyanne Conway
Kellyanne Conway
stated on November 20, 2019 a radio interview.
"We now have the first decline in overdose deaths due to drugs in 30 years - since 1990."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • November 26, 2019
David McKinley
David McKinley
stated on October 13, 2019 an article in a local newspaper
"$53 million a week is coming across the border in drugs."
Mostly True
By Matthew Digby, Minh Do • November 18, 2019
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
Sheila Bynum-Coleman
stated on July 26, 2019 a website post.
"African Americans are three to four times more likely to be arrested for drug crimes, and nine times more likely to be imprisoned."  
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • August 6, 2019
Joe Biden
Joe Biden
stated on April 11, 2019 a panel at the University of Pennsylvania
"People show up in the emergency room with a sprained ankle, 25 percent get an opioid prescription."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 16, 2019
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