“Overdoses reached an all-time high in 2021.”
What PolitiFact found
National data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show an estimated 107,622 drug overdose deaths in the United States in 2021, a 15% increase over what was already a record-setting year in 2020.
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In short
West Virginia Republican Party (state party organization) made this claim around 23 August 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 13 October 2022, 51 days later. Its rating was “True”.
West Virginia Republican Party has 4 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 0 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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