"These are guys with the name Dee Money, Smoothie, Shifty — these types of guys — they come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, they go back home."

So said the governor of Maine last January in a bizarre throwback to racially-charged drug rhetoric of years past in America. But Governor Paul LePage's controversial stance on drugs — in a state that has seen a dizzying rise in opioid-related deaths — isn't limited to questionable statements. It also extends to policy.