Marcella Sorg
Role at the time: drug-policy or public-health researcher
Challenged the characterization
Responding to
Maine’s decrease in overdose deaths in 2025 and 2026 occurred because the Trump administration sealed the border.
"“The evidence supports multiple factors for this reduction in overdose deaths, especially fentanyl deaths, rather than pointing to closing the U.S. border as a single cause.”"
Why we used this label
The statement directly rejects the characterization of border closure as the sole established cause.