
The Opioid Epidemic Demands Public Health Solutions, Not False Claims About Immigration
The opioid epidemic is a public health issue that cannot be credibly linked to immigration or asylum-seekers.
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Trinh Q. Truong is a research associate for Immigration at American Progress. Prior to this role, Truong conducted research on the intersection between social, criminal justice, and immigration policy with deported former refugees in Southeast Asia. She has experience working in the areas of refugee resettlement, immigration organizing, and at an immigrant bail fund. Truong is a former refugee.
Truong holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University in political science, an undergraduate certificate in human rights from Yale Law School, and a master’s degree in refugee and forced migration studies from the University of Oxford.
The opioid epidemic is a public health issue that cannot be credibly linked to immigration or asylum-seekers.
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