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Regina LaBelle

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Regina LaBelle is a Georgetown University professor of addiction policy and practice and a former White House drug-policy official.

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DI has documented statements by Regina LaBelle on Drug Policy, Health Care, and Immigration Policy, among other topics. Read the quotations, original sources and related cases below.

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Statements by Regina LaBelle

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Regina LaBelle

Role at the time: Professor of addiction policy and practice at Georgetown University, in an email interview with PolitiFact

Challenged the characterization

Response to this claim

Maine’s decrease in overdose deaths in 2025 and 2026 occurred because the Trump administration sealed the border.

“It is very difficult to parse out with certainty the specific policies that caused overdose deaths to come down.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)Maine drug overdoses are down. Is Vance right that Trump’s border policies are the cause?Expert interviews and ruling
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The statement challenges confidence in identifying a single policy cause.

Read statementDid border policy cause Maine’s overdose deaths to fall?

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