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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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American lawyer and politician who served as mayor of New York City from 1994 to 2001.
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Zohran Mamdani is the mayor of New York City and a democratic socialist politician.
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Peter Reuter is a University of Maryland professor of public policy and criminology who researches drug policy and illegal markets.
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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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Jonathan P. Caulkins is a Carnegie Mellon University researcher in operations research and public policy who studies drug policy.
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Marcella Sorg is a University of Maine medical and forensic anthropologist whose team provides research for the state's opioid response.
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JD Vance is the vice president of the United States and a former U.S. senator from Ohio. A Marine Corps veteran, he worked as a startup investor and wrote the memoir Hillbilly Elegy before his Senate election.
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