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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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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (4 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.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Nurgle would be proud.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm curios, does anyone know an ex heroin junky that went straight edge and didn't substitute heroin with another addiction? Because I don't

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

In conjunction with this, we are also getting rid of epi-pens in EMS vehicles, planes, and hospitals because this goes beyond a having allergies problem.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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] 92 points 1 day ago (3 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] 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

What was his uncle and father think of the man he has grown to become? What a evil horrible nan.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day 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] 12 points 1 day ago

Yes, they're way too reliably wrong for it to be accidental.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Critics warn that cutting Narcan funding could reverse life-saving progress, especially as fentanyl-related overdoses persist.

Isn't that the idea?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Yup, there's an alleged epidemic of fentanyl pouring through our borders, and we have resources to save lives. But that isn't their goal.

[–] [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.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 day 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 1 day 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] 5 points 1 day ago

He should check if he's still addicted once he gets rid of the narcan

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day 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!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

We NEED to send the military to Washington DC to STOP THIS ADMINISTRATION AND STOP FENTANYL DEATHS!

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People act like RFK Jr. is such a bad guy. They forget it's not him. It's the worms.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The worm is just another of RFK's victims.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

It died of starvation.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Why would his brain slug do this??

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

Republicans fully committed to their platform of spite and hate.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day 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] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

This sucks. I worked in EMS through the peak of the opioid epidemic, and once Narcan became commonplace and widely available, our OD calls dropped noticably.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day 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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

He has zero place on planet earth.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

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