Gov. Charlie Baker Admits Wrong Recount Of Heroin Story During Inaugural Address

SWAMPSCOTT (CBS) -- Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker admitted Sunday that he did not get the details right of a story he told during his inaugural address.

Baker told a story about Evan Greene, an Easton teen who died last January from a heroin overdose. But the 19-year-old did not fall into an opiate addiction from a doctor's prescription, as Baker seemed to suggest. Greene in fact developed an addiction when he was introduced to prescription painkillers through a friend.

"I'm obviously disappointed that I didn't get all those facts right," Baker said at an appreciation event in Swampscott Town Hall Sunday.

"I'm also disappointed in a sense that it may distract from the larger issue I was trying to raise which is, we have an opiate crisis in Massachusetts," he said.

This was not the first time Baker has wrongly recounted a story. During one governor race debate, Baker tearfully recalled a meeting with a New Bedford fisherman who regretted pressuring his sons to follow him into the life of a fisherman rather than go to college. He then admitted he may have gotten some of the details of the story wrong.

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