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Statements and actions by Regina LaBelle on this topic.
Public disputes concerning population health, disease prevention, environmental exposure, overdose trends, and public-health responses.
Counts show individual statements. They do not assign an overall position.
1 statement on this page. Dates: August 25, 2026
1 matching statement. Dates: August 25, 2026
1 published statement. Dates: August 25, 2026
Role at the time: drug-policy or public-health researcher
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.”"
The statement challenges confidence in identifying a single policy cause.
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.
