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Latest Fact-Checks In Drugs

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Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 a radio interview:
Says as a Schedule 1 drug, marijuana carries a designation that means it "should not be researched"  
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • November 21, 2018
Richard Ojeda
Richard Ojeda
stated on October 24, 2018 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."
True
By Douglas Soule • November 15, 2018
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on September 14, 2018 a radio interview:
Says VA doctors are "censored from being able to talk to their patients" about marijuana, even in states where it is legal for medicinal use
Mostly False
By Eric Litke • November 9, 2018
Phil Scott
Phil Scott
stated on October 10, 2018 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
Joe Manchin
Joe Manchin
stated on October 3, 2018 a tweet:
West Virginia "has the highest overdose rate per capita of any state in our nation."
True
By Davis Versprille • November 1, 2018
Mike DeWine
Mike DeWine
stated on September 12, 2018 an ad:
Says Richard Cordray’s "plan would allow drug dealers to remain on our streets."  
False
By Amy Sherman • September 26, 2018
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."  
Mostly True
By Jon Greenberg • September 18, 2018
Chris Sununu
Chris Sununu
stated on June 26, 2018 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
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on June 16, 2018 a blog post:
"Obama administration kept illegal Mexican kids in detention camps as ‘experiment’"
Mostly False
By Bill McCarthy • June 25, 2018
Richard Cordray
Richard Cordray
stated on June 4, 2018 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."
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • June 12, 2018
Ron DeSantis
Ron DeSantis
stated on June 2, 2018 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
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on May 29, 2018 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."  
False
By Jon Greenberg • May 31, 2018
Oliver North
Oliver North
stated on May 20, 2018 an interview on Fox News:
Perpetrators of school shootings "have been drugged in many cases … many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten."
False
By Manuela Tobias • May 22, 2018
True American
True American
stated on May 13, 2018 a headline:
"BREAKING: 60 people just found dead in Ohio"
False
By Amy Sherman • May 17, 2018
Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
stated on May 1, 2018 a tweet:
Says Beto O’Rourke had a "resolution to legalize all narcotics--including heroin and other deadly opioids."
False
By W. Gardner Selby • May 2, 2018
Greg Abbott
Greg Abbott
stated on April 9, 2018 an interview by Trey Ware of San Antonio's KTSA radio station:
Says that as of March 2018 compared with 2017, "there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in the number of people who are apprehended coming across the border. And, I’ll tell you this, there’s been a more than 200 percent increase in apprehension of heroin coming across the border."
Mostly False
By W. Gardner Selby • April 24, 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."
Mostly True
By Amy Sherman • April 20, 2018
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on March 10, 2018 a rally:
Says China and Singapore impose the death penalty on drug dealers.
True
By Miriam Valverde • March 14, 2018
Ann Coulter
Ann Coulter
stated on January 30, 2018 a tweet:
"100% of heroin/fentanyl epidemic is because we don't have a WALL."
Pants on Fire!
By Paul Specht • February 2, 2018
Jeff Sessions
Jeff Sessions
stated on January 4, 2018 a Justice Department memo:
On rescinding Obama-era marijuana enforcement guidelines.
No Flip
By Jon Greenberg • January 5, 2018
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