Accuracy in Media

NPR fact-checked Trump’s statement on America’s heroin overdose problem, and he was right: The Drug Enforcement Administration says the threat posed by heroin in the United States has increased since 2007. Heroin is available in larger quantities, used by a larger number of people, and is causing an increasing number of overdose deaths. In 2014, […]

No wonder America is experiencing an increasing substance abuse problem.

Well, that’s the first news we’ve heard from Maine in awhile: Maine Gov. Paul LePage drew heavy criticism Thursday for his comments regarding out-of-state drug dealers who he claimed are impregnating “young white” girls. The blunt-spoken Republican was speaking about Maine’s heroin epidemic Wednesday and described out-of-state drug dealers as “guys with the name D-Money, […]