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Miro Weinberger
Miro Weinberger
stated on April 3, 2019 state of the city speech
"The public health science is clear that the use of the addiction medicine buprenorphine saves lives whether that use has been prescribed or not."
Mostly True
By Aidan Quigley • April 7, 2019
Jeremiah Samples
Jeremiah Samples
stated on February 28, 2019 testimony before the West Virginia state Senate
"We have had an increase of 67 percent (in) the number of children taken into state custody since 2014."
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By Catherine Harrington, Madison Weaver • April 3, 2019
Carol Miller
Carol Miller
stated on February 15, 2019 a tweeted video
"Just two weeks ago, Customs and Border Protection seized enough fentanyl to kill every person in West Virginia 32 times over."
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By Catherine Harrington, Madison Weaver • March 6, 2019
Amy Klobuchar
Amy Klobuchar
stated on February 18, 2019 a town hall
Prescription drugs "are nearly 20 percent of our health care costs now when you include hospital prescription drugs."
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February 22, 2019
Phil Bredesen
Phil Bredesen
stated on August 24, 2018 a press release
Says Marsha Blackburn "at the behest of the pharmaceutical industry, co-sponsored a law that weakened DEA enforcement efforts against drug distribution companies that were supplying corrupt doctors and pharmacists who peddled narcotics to the black market."  
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By Jon Greenberg • September 18, 2018
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on April 9, 2018 a speech to the City Club of Cleveland
"Right now in Ohio 200,000 people are getting opioid treatment because they have insurance under the Affordable Care Act."
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By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Greg Murphy
Greg Murphy
stated on April 10, 2017 a speech
"Every day, four North Carolinians die from a medication or drug overdose."
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By Will Doran • April 13, 2017
Van Jones
Van Jones
stated on July 7, 2016 a panel discussion on CNN
African-Americans don't use drugs at a higher level than whites but "wind up going to prison six times more."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • July 13, 2016
Larry Yarborough
Larry Yarborough
stated on June 9, 2016 a meeting in the legislature about hemp regulations
Says if you try to hide marijuana in a hemp field, "it becomes worthless. The THC goes away."
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By Will Doran • June 14, 2016
Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan
stated on April 19, 2016 an op-ed in the Huffington Post
"Studies have consistently failed to establish the existence of a link between the harshness of a country’s drug laws and its levels of drug use."
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By Jon Greenberg • April 22, 2016
Bernie Sanders
Bernie Sanders
stated on March 26, 2016 a speech
"Under the federal Controlled Substance Act, marijuana is listed in the same Schedule I as heroin," even though "marijuana is not a killer drug like heroin."  
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April 22, 2016
Jeb Bush
Jeb Bush
stated on January 21, 2016 an editorial board interview with the Concord Monitor
"90 percent of all pain medications are prescribed in the United States."
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By Clay Wirestone • February 4, 2016
Centers for Disease Control
Centers for Disease Control
stated on October 22, 2015 map
Georgia has the highest flu activity in the country.
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By Nancy Badertscher • October 26, 2015
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on September 1, 2015 an op-ed in the New Hampshire Union-Leader
"Twenty-three million Americans suffer from addiction, but only 1 in 10 get treatment."
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By Louis Jacobson • September 4, 2015
Dino Baccari
Dino Baccari
stated on April 16, 2015 testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.
A Penn State University study found that "electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes."
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 3, 2015
Edward Flynn
Edward Flynn
stated on April 14, 2015 a news conference
In Wisconsin, a "second arrest for carrying pot is a felony," but a second or subsequent arrest "for carrying a gun illegally is a misdemeanor."  
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April 15, 2015
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on September 19, 2014 a debate in the Rio Grande Valley.
"The FBI is involved in an investigation about people in the Rio Grande Valley who are using cocaine to buy votes."      
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By W. Gardner Selby • September 24, 2014
Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi
stated on September 8, 2014 a campaign commercial
Of the 98 top oxycodone-dispensing doctors who used to live in Florida, "today, there are none."
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By Joshua Gillin • September 16, 2014
John Oliver
John Oliver
stated on August 17, 2014 a segment on his show, "Last Week Tonight"
"The number of SWAT raids have gone up by 1,400 percent since the 1980s."
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By Louis Jacobson • August 18, 2014
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on June 10, 2014 her book, "Hard Choices"
"By the time I left" the State Department, "economic growth was up and opium production was down" in Afghanistan, while "infant mortality declined" and school enrollment rose by more than sevenfold.
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By Louis Jacobson • June 10, 2014
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