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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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[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

At least it's not the same guy who dumped a dead bear in Central Park oh wait it totally is!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm sorry, what?

EDIT oh. But also still what?? Why???

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 164 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Drug addict says, "fuck you, I got mine"

[–] [email protected] 38 points 3 days ago (5 children)

You should work for the LA Times.
You know how to write a headline.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 93 points 3 days ago (5 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 days ago (2 children)

"This administration is so unpredictable!"

proceeds to act project 2025 as it was written

Pikachu face

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Past? Have you drug tested him? Does he seem altogether put together?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago

RFK, like the rest of the oligarchs, cannot appreciate how society allowed him to live his best life.

[–] [email protected] 89 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 days ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

  • Mitch Hedberg
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 days ago

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?!"

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Everything good must be backed up with "We'll fight you over this if we have to."

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 days ago

Just dropping this here on the off chance you dont have this saved to your phone or something yet. For me it's the gift that keeps on giving.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

We are being cleansed. It's pretty obvious isn't it?

Depopulation of the unwanted by those above us.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

deeper societal change

Like UBI? Or a reduction in work hours? Or education programs? This jerk won't do any of that.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 days ago

Pro-Life Party in action.

“Much has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada,” Trump said. “But we have very large deficits with both of them. But even more importantly, they have allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people, destroying families. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it.”

My, how quickly they abandoned the 'we must protect our people' reasoning used to justify tariffs.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He just summarily wiped out a large portion of the MAGA voting base in the southeast.

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[–] grte 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Well, opioid deaths were going down. Can't be having effective policy in this administration.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk 19 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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?

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I was at a music festival and a group of people were saying their friend stopped breathing. We confirmed and i supplied the narcan from a donation program and a friend who has administered it before brought him back while we called for paramedics who came within a few minutes and took over. The guy survived. RFKjerk wants that guy to have died. He has zero place in health or the government

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 days ago (2 children)

We NEED to send the Military to the Border to STOP FENTANYL DEATHS!

-The SAME people Stopping this CHEAPER Program that ACTUALLY stops FENTANYL Deaths!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Does anyone know how long Narcan's shelf life is? I have some but I want to know if it is worth stocking up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

My understanding is that it's quite long. I saw cited a 90% effectiveness at 30 years.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 3 days ago

Republicans fully committed to their platform of spite and hate.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

These people want death. They are death worshippers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Truly, best I can tell, death is seen as the solution to many problems rather than, you know, solutions.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 days ago

He is a danger to us all. The whole starting tariffs to punish Canada and Mexico for fentanyl making its way into the country was obviously a farce. They don’t give one single fuck about anybody but themselves!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago

Nurgle would be proud.

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