Summary
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., despite his history of heroin addiction, supports ending a $56 million federal Narcan distribution program that helped drive a nearly 24% drop in U.S. overdose deaths in 2024.
The program, administered by SAMHSA, trained over 66,000 people and distributed 282,500 kits.
Critics warn that cutting Narcan funding could reverse life-saving progress, especially as fentanyl-related overdoses persist.
Kennedy argues the crisis requires deeper societal change beyond “nuts and bolts” solutions, while public health advocates condemn the move as dangerously premature.
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The biggest public health issue we are facing is human stupidity.
The stupidity of many American citizens is a direct threat to our safety and well being.
These people want death. They are death worshippers.
Fascism is a death cult.
Truly, best I can tell, death is seen as the solution to many problems rather than, you know, solutions.
Past addiction?
that worm knew how to party.
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
- Mitch Hedberg
This is the same man who once sawed the head off of a whale, strapped it to his roof, then forced his children to endure being rained upon by whale juice.
Just internalize that. This man is in charge of health
The only thing I can agree with him on is that people are eating too much unhealthy shit, and the food industry needs to do better.
Literally everything else out of his mouth is utter lunacy.
I’m sorry, what?
EDIT oh. But also still what?? Why???
Thought to myself, that can’t possibly be true, but then:
Kathleen Kennedy said when she was 6 years old, her dad got word that a dead whale had washed ashore. He got a chainsaw, cut off the whale’s head and strapped it to the roof of their minivan for a five-hour drive home.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/rfk-jr-kennedy-whale-investigation-09c494d8164c6f9bde9ece39637ea4d3
At least it’s not the same guy who dumped a dead bear in Central Park oh wait it totally is!
RFK, like the rest of the oligarchs, cannot appreciate how society allowed him to live his best life.
He just summarily wiped out a large portion of the MAGA voting base in the southeast.
Seriously though…
Past? Have you drug tested him? Does he seem altogether put together?
Drugs? Did someone mention drugs? The white house is teeming with drugs and drug users. RFK Jr is sure to get a little drug splash accidentally, of course. Look, he hates McDonalds but there we was chowing down with Krasnov.
Kennedy argues the crisis requires deeper societal change beyond “nuts and bolts” solutions, while public health advocates condemn the move as dangerously premature.
So do that first brain worm. You could keep the program going while you work on all that.
Ah but that’s the conservative approach everywhere in the world. Yes there’s a societal issue. No we won’t do anything about it. Actually, correction: we will make it worse.
Does anyone know how long Narcan’s shelf life is? I have some but I want to know if it is worth stocking up
My understanding is that it’s quite long. I saw cited a 90% effectiveness at 30 years.
Used to be 2 years, recently changed to 3. Not sure if that’s due to some ingredient change though, so you’re better going with 2 I’d say. But I’m also an idiot. lol
I honestly have no words… This one is hitting me in ways that I cannot describe. What these people have done to my generation through the creation of this epidemic is inhumane, and this step back has made me have a full blown cry. Hug the ones you love, you never know who is suffering. If you are reading this and you are suffering as well, know that you are loved too.
deeper societal change
Like UBI? Or a reduction in work hours? Or education programs? This jerk won’t do any of that.
That sounds like a lot of work when you have the old reliable conservative tactic of pretending the problem doesn’t exist while blaming the ill effects of the not-problem on the personal responsibility of the victims. And their mental health. And other dog whistles that they are lesser subhumans who don’t deserve help.
He somewhat backed UBI when running for president. That idea is probably gone now under Trump but he wasn’t against it not to long ago.
[RFK voice] I killed my brother by forcing hard drugs on him that he’d get addicted to and ultimately overdose. All I’m doing now is killing the American people that are addicted to drugs. What’s not to understand about that?
He will do as the brain worm commands
Of course he does. This mush mouthed brain dead stack of rotten shoe leather is a COMPLETE disgrace to the Kennedy name. The only thing keeping this sorry sack of shit out of a white jacket and a rubber room is his family’s legacy AND MONEY.
I wouldn’t call the Kennedy name honorable exactly
But what was the Kennedy name? Joe dealing with the mafia to get JFK elected? JFK escalating the Vietnam war? Bay of pigs? Ted at Chappaquiddick?
Before that even – Joe making big bucks on WWII.
I feel like I missed an award winning documentary somewhere…
