A Pennsylvania recovery counselor said his participation on a recent panel with Mehmet Oz , the states Republican candidate for U.S. Senate , was enough to be swayed away from voting for him.

Justyn Patton, a certified recovery specialist for DreamLife Recovery PA, was a member of an Oz Safer Streets Community Discussion panel in the City of Johnstown on Tuesday, The Tribune-Democrat reported .

Johnstown is located in Cambria County, which has ranked among the counties in Pennsylvania with the highest per capita overdose deaths, the newspaper said .

Oz spoke to the panel which featured doctors and recovery professionals about the problem of illegal drugs in the U.S. including the movement of potent, China-sourced synthetic opioid fentanyl coming in from the U.S.Mexico border, the newspaper reported.