President Trump’s campaign website touts a drop in drug overdose deaths in 2018. Deaths did drop that year, but they rose in his other three years in office, including a record increase in 2020.
Trump and Congress provided $3.3 billion in grants to states since 2017 for opioid treatment, the Times reported in 2019. But it’s hard to draw a direct connection between the administration’s efforts and the statistical decline. And some experts have suggested that the decline had other roots.
The overdose death rate did drop from 2017 to 2018. But this is a cherry-picked view of the trends on Trump’s watch.
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