Robert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, he'll build treatment "farms" to help people recover.
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He should go live on one and never bother the human race again. Your framing, that he "survived," makes him seem valiant or heroic instead of what he is: one of the worst people on earth, who wants to bring back childhood diseases we'd all but eradicated.
THIS is the headline and caption you want to choose? This man either TRULY believes vaccines cause autism or spreads it for fun. He is DANGEROUS for our country. Do better!
Sorry, but you are incorrect. He spreads for profit. It was revealed that he "accidentally" failed to disclose how much he was getting paid by his anti-vax advocacy group when he ran for president.
He "survived" addiction (possibly still not sober?) yet doesn't tall about how it ruined his life. He talks about how heroin IMPROVED it. Get this joker out of here.
These assholes don’t even want to pay for suicide prevention programs for veterans or meals on wheels for disabled and elderly people but we are supposed to believe they want to help dirty addicts go to a farm?
The list of ppl he believes need his camps go far beyond substance abuse to lunacy. Even as far as rehoming children that need medication. Fk him. He's a lunatic. A dangerous lunatic. Why are we debating this? It's madness
Didn't he also say that he wanted these camps for people taking anti-depressants and anti-anxiety meds too? Thats not drug addiction, that's treatment. And doesn't he also say that he still uses ketamine outside of treatment? Thats addiction.
As a nurse working at one of Canada's leading providers of addiction services, I feel it's important to recognize you need a willing participant, the funds for the program, and a safe place for that person to go afterwards. Substance abuse is only one part of the problem of addiction.
Wait until rural America get's a whiff of having a recovery camp in their hamlet. There will be broad sudden cases of NIMBY-itis as quick as the press release is posted.
@npr.org this is a terrible misleading headline and you should be ashamed. If we can’t count on you to report the true impact of events, why are you here? Don’t blandly normalize the destruction of our society.
Absolutely the kind of idea that would come from a politician who doesn’t understand the role his extreme privilege and wealth plays in his continued health.
So he will enslave addicts for farm labor. Sound like opium fields to me. Oh yeah and without vaccine people will die. If your not a doctor you should not over see a doctor. Trump can't get anyone qualified for his cabinet.
Trump, Don Jr, Matt Gaetz... Wasn't one of the allegations against Lauren Boebert's oldest crotch spawn that he was on something? Send him along with them.
I have concluded based on the recent election and the fact we are okay with these whackadoos that many Americans are completely lost and are desperate. American exceptionalism should be American crap brought to by big box store culture.
@npr.org c’mon. Don’t sanewash this proposal. Treatment farm probably means one of two things: Auschwitz, or being shipped to Republican-owned farms to pick the crops for free.
Well obviously, this is america so the govt will only mandate attendance, the cost of the facility is still on the person so how else will they be able to afford it?
Treatment farms? Run by billionaires? Perhaps Musk, the Ketamine King can be recruited to sell ketamine while Bobby sells his vitamins. Oh & the treatment farms will be paid in crypto
Pure cowardice to treat this like a reasonable policy. The guy's threatening force anyone "addicted to substances" (read: anyone on any kind of medication) to stop cold turkey at gunpoint. Calling it a treatment farm doesn't make it NOT a Concentration Camp.
He is a danger to the health of the American people and the health of the globe. Report the facts—surviving addiction may be a fact but the truth is: he is an insult to science and medicine
This is a shitty headline. Why not bring up that he is so not qualified for this position, he is an anti vaxxer, and flat out crazy (did your asses forget the bear story). Stop bending the fucking knee.
Caroline told us in her speech yesterday he would put baby chicks and mice in blenders and feed them to his other pets. Was this during his addiction??
He's insane. You don't eat raw dead bear and come to me saying you're sane.
He's going to stop vaccinating children as well. Can we focus on that? He thinks there is still mercury in vaccines. He thinks vaccines cause autism -based on the most debunked false research that continues today.
It wasn't just Jews. It was every minority group the Nazis declared objectionable along with dissidents and political opponents. In modern parlance, it'd be anyone accused of being a DEI hire.
Not only were gays, lesbians, and trans people among the first groups targeted, some of the American liberators of the concentration camps put the gays *back* into the camps until the prisons could be opened back up. So it's no surprise those groups are being targeted now.
For context: Dick wrote a dystopian novel about drug usage called A Scanner Darkly where the protagonist - who was basically turned catatonic by the drug - got sent to a work farm as part of his rehabilitation.
NPR are you on drugs? Stop giving this drug addicted grifter any grace. He is evil and hateful like 47. Nothing his cousin Caroline said was shocking or new information. All of his children were vaccinated. He is a POS scammer & liar.
#RFKJR #endfascism
end #whiteprivilege
Every time I read about this it makes me think about my Chinese professor telling us about how he was sent to the countryside to reform through agricultural labor during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. Not the kind of association you want from your government officials.
Yeah, I'm gonna agree with a lot of the commenters here. It's not a farm, it's gonna be a camp. Also I don't think he's recovered from the addiction. I think he's still using...
He’s full of crap.
The gold standard for opioid addiction is medication assisted treatment, in which a long acting opioid is prescribed to eliminate cravings. Once these are controlled, patients can participate in treatment activities. After a few years, they can be slowly titrated off.
💯. Although I just leaned last week in my DEA MATE Act training that the new preferred term is MOUD which stands for medications for opiate use disorder. The idea being it’s moving away from considering it secondary treatment and putting SUDs on par with other illnesses, eg we don’t say insulin…
Yeh... I don't trust RFK Jr. in any way to solve these issues. I know what these farms will turn into, another attempt by the rich to steal your labour.
As a person surrounded by the loss of a generation of of Heroin and Oxy Deaths and Addiction. This sounds nice, but where's the Dr's? Concentration camps are of no one's interest.
Why doesn't @npr.org ask RFKJr about his role in allowing Putnam County, NY to dump 6mgpd of sewage into the #Hudson River when his job with @riverkeeper.org was to keep pollutants OUT of the river?
Yeah, they start with addicts then transition to political enemies. Or they just switch from the Troubled Teens Wilderness camps trend to this, farming free labor from people as "rehabilitation".
Really. How deep did you dig to find a “positive “ RFK Jr lie?! Will you rerun this story when this country is knee deep in the Bird Flu with no recourse?!
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, he'll build treatment "farms" to help Trump build his slave labor program to replace migrant farm workers.
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They can call this the #Iowa Recovery Project, just think I-80
THIS is the headline and caption you want to choose? This man either TRULY believes vaccines cause autism or spreads it for fun. He is DANGEROUS for our country. Do better!
Dream on
😂 ✌🏽
You are disgraceful.
Do your job.
Aka labor camps.
We need a head of HHS who doesn't hate disabled people.
It’s not like sending people out into the country side hasn’t been tried before
Got it
What kind of monster puts baby chicks in a blender to feed their hawks?
#kakistocracy
But no no “Treatment Farms” are not camps … yet
a.k.a.
Prison camps
Internment Camps
#voteNoRFKjr
By the way, with what funding? Remember Trump and Elon are shrinking the Federal government since they are so "fiscally conservative".
Treatment camps will actually cost Federal money to build and operate.
Trump and Elon won't let him build treatment camps.
You don’t HAVE to be the Völkischer Beobachter you know.
https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings/nomination-of-robert-f-kennedy-jr-to-serve-as-secretary-of-health-and-human-services
He's going to stop vaccinating children as well. Can we focus on that? He thinks there is still mercury in vaccines. He thinks vaccines cause autism -based on the most debunked false research that continues today.
For context: Dick wrote a dystopian novel about drug usage called A Scanner Darkly where the protagonist - who was basically turned catatonic by the drug - got sent to a work farm as part of his rehabilitation.
The farm made the drug.
This guy longs to help no one.
#RFKJR #endfascism
end #whiteprivilege
The gold standard for opioid addiction is medication assisted treatment, in which a long acting opioid is prescribed to eliminate cravings. Once these are controlled, patients can participate in treatment activities. After a few years, they can be slowly titrated off.
Holy shit
by farms is labor camps/asylums. WTF is wrong with these psycho Republicans they are seriously going to kill people.
NPR has failed the American people.
News articles raise some questions and concerns.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/they-basically-kicked-me-out-glen-ellen-recovery-center-expelled-clients/
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/hundreds-of-patients-dying-in-california-rehab-centers/
Would a science-denying regime improve patient conditions and outcomes?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. survived heroin addiction and says that if confirmed as head of the Department of Health and Human Services, he'll build treatment "farms" to help Trump build his slave labor program to replace migrant farm workers.