Funny how you're saying that you heard something in the media that the media isn't going to be telling us. In fact, Fool, this is ALL OVER THE MEDIA.
Trump did NOTHING to reduce the deaths. Not one damn thing. He was far too busy trying to prosecute the FBI, the CIA, and Democrats who opposed him.
See facts and figures on overdose deaths as reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
www.drugabuse.gov
That brief dip in 2018 was the result of work done by the Obama Administration years earlier.
You really are too stupid to be one person. Corporations settle law suits all of the time when the Plaintiff has no case. It costs hundreds of thousands of dollars to hold a civil trial. Even the cost of holding the trial and having the case tossed, could run to a quarter of a million dollars, easily. Better to pay the Plaintiff off to go away.
Both CNN and WAPO invested considerable time and money on the first trial which Sandmann lost and the case was tossed. The second attempt had hardly any more merit than the first but if Sandmann settled for legal fees, that would be a win for him.