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.
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
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.
Past? Have you drug tested him? Does he seem altogether put together?
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.
He just summarily wiped out a large portion of the MAGA voting base in the southeast.
Seriously though…
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
We are being cleansed. It’s pretty obvious isn’t it?
Depopulation of the unwanted by those above us.
it’s not going to do that though
More opioid users will die. How is that not doing it?
deeper societal change
Like UBI? Or a reduction in work hours? Or education programs? This jerk won’t do any of that.
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.
“This administration is so unpredictable!”
Is it though? It seems pretty simple:
Does it help people and not directly benefit the ultra wealthy? Kill it.
Does it hurt people we don’t like or boost the oppressive power of the state? Boost it!
That seems to be the Trump administration in a nutshell.
“This administration is so unpredictable!”
proceeds to act project 2025 as it was written
Pikachu face
Yes, they’re way too reliably wrong for it to be accidental.
What was his uncle and father think of the man he has grown to become? What a evil horrible nan.
I don’t know about his uncle, but his father was a horrible, disgusting man. Likely the reason Trump, self admittedly, has not emotionally matured beyond a first grade level.
Not talking about Trump. Talking about RJK Jr.
Drug addict says, “fuck you, I got mine”
Imagine being rich and getting addicted to heroin. Literal everything has been designed to benefit you - unlike your sister you weren’t born with the wrong chromosomes so any obnoxious behavior was written off. Never worrying about where your next meal would come from, how you’re going to get a job, dealing with mental illness you can’t afford to get treatment for…
How much do you have to suck to fail so hard when everything has been lined up for you since birth?
well now he as non-human DNA in human, aka his brainworms.
he drove his brother to heroin addiction and suicide by 28yo. and his 1st wife was driven to suicide and drinking, because he was forcing her to be a “stay at home wife” where her work is needs hands on, basically giving it up.
Firstly, mental health is not a poor problem, it’s an everyone problem.
More importantly, addiction is fucked. Wealth does not protect you. “A good life” does not save you. A loving family, a dog, a white picket fence… they don’t stop you.
There are a billion very valid reasons to criticize this fuckup, and he is absolutely a hypocritical piece of shit for ruining the lives of other addicts. But addiction can fuck up anyone, and it’s not entirely their fault. Please don’t paint addiction as nothing more than a moral failing and a symptom of poverty.
It’s not mental health persay, wellness sure but he’s not insane he’s just historically a lonely loser that had to buy friendship.
This fuckin weirdo used to hang out at the dump and eat trash with his birds of prey… Freggins this freggins that but they don’t do that shit at the dump.
He is very much mentally unwell. Hanging at the dump eating animals his birds killed on acid. He gave his 14 year old cousin acid.
He killed people in Samoa, including 40 children, with his vaccine denial. He thinks he knows more than all the doctors in the world who disagree with him. He is mentally ill. Narcissist at a minimum.
So what? The giving it to a child isn’t great but doing acid is fine it’s one of the safest drugs on earth.
Yeah that’s being a self important piece of shit, neither of those things equal mental health issues. Not every asshole has an excuse and people need to stop defaulting towards mental health because it’s extremely offensive to people with actual mental health issues.
Sure - addiction can fuck anyone.
Some of us can afford rehab though. And it’s especially fucked when someone can afford rehab, benefits from it, and then turns around to deny others help.
If RFK Jr left his addiction with a sense of empathy for the people who don’t have family members who will quietly cover up when one of your relatives kills someone while driving drunk, that would be a different story.
I am not empathic to rich addicts. The fact that my stepdad was able to get weekend jail on his 5th DUI and used me and my siblings to start his car - while a schizophrenic who self medicates with opioids in my state will be killed in jail - nah, fuck them with a rusty pole and no tetanus shot.
i think the heroin+brainworms permanantly damaged his brain, like how benzos damaged J petersons brain when he went to russia to go into a medically induced coma.
It is especially fucked and hypocritical. He is a piece of shit. I already addressed that.
But it doesn’t change a thing about addiction. Wealth does not prevent addiction. Access to rehab does not prevent addiction. Wealthy addicts aren’t any more or less moral failures than their impoverished counterparts.
Wealthy addict hypocrites are moral failures and worthy of ridicule. But perpetuating the falsehood that addiction itself is a moral failing - that the only reason a wealthy person becomes an addict is because they are weak - that has just as much impact on the impoverished as it has on the wealthy.
When you claim that poverty is the only moral justification for addiction, you directly hurt the impoverished addict - you limit the nature of their addiction to nothing more than a product of their environment. If they just had money, they wouldn’t be an addict. That is wrong.
You should work for the LA Times.
You know how to write a headline.But this is the Latin Times
You mean the LA Tintimes?
Nah, it’s the workout rag called Lat in Times.
LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA LA
LA Tin Times
but I think using the middle name is a little too formal
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.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
Everything good must be backed up with “We’ll fight you over this if we have to.”
I’ve taken to the approach of simply asking “are you willing to die for these beliefs?”
… And the honest answer is why we are here. In general when people are wordy about something bad, it means they’ve decided not to fight, but prefer to cover it with indignation.
Protests used to be the warning before the fight.
Too bad some people are anti-gun and love saying how your constitution talks just about national guard in that second amendment. Or love laughing about sovcits. I mean, sovcits are mostly inventing explanations why they shouldn’t pay debts, or so I’ve heard.
You don’t think there’s any good perspective in “the fight” without being always prepared, do you?
I find it funny, I’ve just seen a post how all of USSR’s history was an attempt at a shortcut to becoming a second USA. Because, well, from Russia of 1917 that didn’t seem plausible via slow evolution, they chose revolutionary, destructive, centralized approaches, ignoring all those ethics and small things and nuance. So somehow after USSR’s collapse more and more Americans, apparently, started thinking it was a good idea.
Probably because when USSR still existed, it was just another country on the map. Strange regime, strange laws, strange life. Poverty. But it existed and was real and not too weird, still inhabited by humans after all, and Americans would see a very different mechanism giving some kind of perspective. Like teaching something about physics and engineering they show borderline cases - one extreme, the opposite extreme, a few points of the characteristic function between them. Now they don’t.
56 million to drop the OD death rate by nearly a quarter? This is exactly the sort of thing I want to see my taxes doing, directly improving people’s lives, and the cost is a drop in the bucket for federal budgets.
And his reasoning is bullshit, you can work to address the deeper cause while mitigating the symptoms, it isn’t an either/or
Doubly infuriating is that they have NO intention of “addressing the deeper cause”. This asshole drug addict is just “personal responsibility”-ing drug addiction.
“Why don’t you just have your family send you to the best treatment centers available like I did?!”
Daily reminder not to feed into bullshit talking points about fentanyl from the borders. Nothing this administration does is about fentanyl, fentanyl is just the new marijuana or crack - a justification for exploitation and abuse. For blaming minorities and foreigners.
Don’t get me wrong - fentanyl is fucked. There is a real crisis out there.
But this administration doesn’t give a shit about that crisis. They never have, they never will. Here is exhibit A.
Kennedy argues the crisis requires deeper societal change beyond “nuts and bolts” solutions, while public health advocates condemn the move as dangerously premature.
Putting aside that “nuts and bolts” isn’t even the right metaphor here, why wouldn’t you save lives right now at the same time you, you know, fix society? This guy stops every few steps to chew his gum?
That’s just it, they don’t care about saving lives. I wonder what the demographics are with people that need this help the most. If it’s not majority white people, this is a great shot at killing off minorties without consequences.
It’s the same kind of rhetoric they use against gun control. It’s always a mental health problem, but they won’t address that either because they prefer mentally ill people to suffer.
I was like. The brain worms must have eaten that portion of his brain because he essentially said, we need more than the things that are holding everything together…
his gouald must be still a larval form.
