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

Vice President JD Vance said Maine’s decline in overdose deaths followed the Trump administration’s sealing of the border. State data confirm a decline in 2025, but the trend began before the administration took office. Drug-policy and public-health researchers cited multiple potential contributors and said the available evidence does not establish border policy as the cause.

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