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RFK Jr. to end 'godsend' Narcan program that helped reduce overdose deaths despite his past heroin addiction (www.latintimes.com)

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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] 59 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Protests used to be the warning before the fight.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've taken to the approach of simply asking "are you willing to die for these beliefs?"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

... 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.