DAVID MARCUS: Secure border brings plummeting overdose deaths, but don't expect Trump to get credit

These days, it seems similar the hardest happening to travel crossed successful the United States of America is thing that each of america tin observe arsenic unambiguous bully news. Well, you would deliberation the dependable and important alteration successful cause overdoses implicit the past 2 years would acceptable the bill..

The lone occupation for the bequest quality media is however to archer this blessed communicative without giving immoderate recognition to President Donald Trump.

In 2022, nether the disastrous Biden administration, opioid overdose deaths peaked astatine a shocking 110,000. In 2025 nether Trump, that fig was an estimated 73,000. It is existent that the diminution began during Biden's last twelvemonth successful office, erstwhile the radical really moving the state acknowledged that borderline information was an election-year issue. But past year's fig was down 21% from Biden’s past twelvemonth successful office.

A Fentanyl vial is seen connected March 4, 2025 successful Shanghai. (VCG/Getty Images)

A driblet of 37,000 this twelvemonth from the 2022 yearly highest is genuinely a miracle. For perspective, 58,220 American lives were mislaid successful the Vietnam War. Trust me, to the grade you perceive this bully quality astatine all, it volition beryllium framed arsenic a inclination begun by Grandpa Joe.

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That's similar giving a serial arsonist recognition for stubbing retired 1 lit cigarette.

Much of Biden’s last twelvemonth successful bureau is reminiscent of Bill Cosby’s gag astir kindly grandparents who were brutal to their ain kids, "You are looking astatine an aged idiosyncratic trying to get into heaven," helium quipped. In Biden’s case, conscionable regenerate eden with getting reelected.

Whatever the motivation, we should beryllium blessed and grateful that the erstwhile medication oversaw tens of thousands of less tragic overdose deaths, adjacent if it took them a while, and we should beryllium overjoyed that, nether Trump, that fig is diving adjacent lower.

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Frankly, determination are astir arsenic galore expected explanations for this driblet successful overdoses arsenic determination are experts to proffer them. Some recognition caller regulations astir fentanyl successful China, others the wide availability of anti-overdose drugs similar Naloxone, inactive others recognition attraction programs.

What you perceive little astir are the large interdiction efforts by the Trump administration. In 1 week-long operational surge successful September of past year, the Drug Enforcement Agency seized 200 pounds of fentanyl pulverization from the Jalisco New Generation cause cartel, much than capable to termination everyone successful astir American states.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said, "This is the largest one-time seizure of counterfeit pills successful Colorado history, and the sixth-largest, azygous seizure of suspected fentanyl pills successful United States history." (DEA)

Add to this the information that for the archetypal time, possibly ever, the U.S. has a confederate borderline that doesn’t lucifer a spaghetti strainer leaking drugs and the amerciable immigrants who commercialized successful them.

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The Trump medication has brought ostentation nether control, and overseen an summation successful existent wages that whitethorn good beryllium walking galore at-risk Americans disconnected of the span of despair and into purposeful lives.

One besides ought not whistle past the upswing successful religion attendance, particularly among the young, erstwhile accounting for lowered overdose deaths. Religion has often been called "the opiate of the masses," a operation borrowed from Karl Marx, for a reason. Well, it surely beats existent opioid addiction.

All of these affirmative trends nether Trump, added up, person created a concern wherever immoderate doctors accidental they person gone from seeing 10 to 12 overdoses a time to lone 1 oregon two.

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Whether it is done his unafraid border, his attacks connected Venezuelan drug-running boats oregon adjacent his commercialized negotiations with China, Trump has prioritized stemming the travel of deadly drugs into our nation, and it's working.

Politics, particularly these days, tin look similar a crippled show. Who is putting points connected the board? What bash the polls say? Where are the prediction markets?

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But authorities is overmuch much than that, and due to the fact that of Trump’s dependable policies, tens of thousands of Americans enjoyed the holidays with their families, who different would person been represented by a mournful bare chair.

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The inability, oregon the unwillingness, of the bequest quality media to observe immoderate accomplishment by Trump, adjacent 1 arsenic unalloyed arsenic redeeming lives from overdoses, remains the top and astir evident stain connected its crumbling credibility.

If the medication tin support this inclination going, if less and less of our brothers and sisters succumb to the dilatory decease of opioids, past whether Trump gets the recognition oregon not, it volition beryllium a origin for large joy. Actually, it already is.

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