“Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.”
What PolitiFact found
Sullivan County, N.Y., leads the state in opioid death rate, but the federal government does not consider it to be part of its High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.
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In short
Chuck Schumer (U.S. Senator, D-N.Y.) made this claim around 11 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 4 April 2023, 24 days later. Its rating was “Mostly True”.
Chuck Schumer has 11 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 6 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- schumer.senate.govhttps://www.schumer.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/as-opioid-deaths-continue-to-soar-…
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