Regina LaBelle on Health Care

Statements and actions by Regina LaBelle on this topic.

Public disputes concerning medical treatment, screening, access to care, health services, insurance, and health-care policy.

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Statement history

1 statement on this page. Dates: August 25, 2026

1 matching statement. Dates: August 25, 2026

1 published statement. Dates: August 25, 2026

Challenged the characterization

1 published statement. Dates: August 25, 2026

1 statement on this page. Dates: August 25, 2026

Regina LaBelle

Role at the time: drug-policy or public-health researcher

August 25, 2026Challenged the characterization

Responding to

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.”"

Why we used this label

The statement challenges confidence in identifying a single policy cause.

PolitiFact review of Vance’s Maine overdose claim

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Expert interviews and ruling

Reports named interviews with University of Maine, Carnegie Mellon, University of Maryland, Georgetown, and Brown drug-policy and public-health researchers, plus a response from the vice president’s office.

Our account of this statement has been corrected. 1 correction

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