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Correct. Same as

did during his life. Which reminds me: ‼️🚨⏰ WHY aren’t you going after the #Sackler family for buying off dead addicts for $10000 a head?

Ima happy you got clean cause I’ve seen addicts in distress … but you can and should do better for #addicts

Ima read below 🔻& respond based off my views of current situation in the #USA as an #American citizen. Peace ☮️ be with you.

1. #Sacklers The Sackler family is an American family who owned the pharmaceutical company Purdue Pharma and later founded Mundipharma.[1] Purdue Pharma, and some members of the family, have faced lawsuits regarding overprescription of addictive pharmaceutical drugs, including OxyContin. Purdue Pharma has been criticized for its central role in the opioid epidemic in the United States.[2][3][4] They have been described as the "most evil family in America",[5][6][7][8] and "the worst drug dealers in history".[9][10] The Sackler family has been profiled in various media, including the documentary Crime of the Century on HBO, the book Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe, the 2021 Hulu miniseries Dopesick, the 2022 Oscar-nominated documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, and the 2023 Netflix mini-series Painkiller.

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Recounting #heroin #addiction and spiritual awakening, RFK Jr. urges focus on prevention and community By — Travis Loller, Associated Press Health Apr 24, 2025 6:15 PM EDT NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) —

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin #addiction #spiritual #awakening and #recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young people need a sense of purpose in their lives to prevent them from turning to drugs.

📑 humans almost always need a sense of purpose so we agree. 👍

Kennedy called addiction "a source of misery, but also a symptom of misery." In a speech that mentioned God more than 20 times, he pointed to his own experience feeling as though he had been born with a hole inside of himself that he needed to fill.

📝 right cause humans can’t be moral without a #god to bow down to. Nah.

"Every addict feels that way in one way or another — that they have to fix what's wrong with them, and the only thing that works are drugs. And so threats that you might die, that you're going to ruin your life are completely meaningless," he said.

📝 broken people become addicts because they feel something is internally wrong. Sad cycle to see repeated.

Speaking to about 3,000 people at the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville, Tennessee, Kennedy did not address recent budget and personnel cuts or agency reorganizations that many experts believe could jeopardize public health, including recent progress on overdose deaths.

📝: not shocked

Kennedy drew cheers when he said that we need to do "practical things" to help people with addictions, like providing them with #Suboxone and #methadone He also said there should be rehabilitation facilities available for anyone who is ready to seek help. But he focused on the idea of prevention, signaling his view of addiction as a problem fueled by deteriorating family, community and spiritual life.

📝🚨🚨🚨‼️ #PurduePharma can pay for All those IF someone had the balls to make it happen. Alas ..

"We have this whole generation of kids who've lost hope in their future," he said. "They've lost their ties to the community."

‼️‼️‼️ NAH but it’s narrative warfare to continually place #USA in fear so you do you.

Kennedy said policy changes could help reestablish both of those things. Though Kennedy offered few concrete ideas, he recommended educating parents on the value of having meals without cellphones and providing opportunities for service for their children.

🤣🤣🤣: duh

The best way to overcome depression and hopelessness, he said, is to wake up each morning and pray "please make me useful to another human being today. "

😂😂😂: or volunteer or make the world a better place. Tots and pears

He suggested that cellphones are a pernicious influence on young people and that banning them in schools could help decrease drug addiction.

🚨🚨🚨 / how old is Kennedy how did he become a heroin addict if he grew up without a cell phone just asking questions here.

He cited a recent visit to a Virginia school that had banned cellphones, saying that grades were up, violence was down and kids were talking to one another in the cafeteria.

🚨🚨🚨 COOL 😎 He picks one school.

Kennedy told attendees that he was addicted to heroin for 14 years, beginning when he was a teenager. During those years, he was constantly making promises to quit, both to himself and to his family.

👁️👁️: wut a sad life to live addicted to anything horrific. Peace ☮️

"I didn't want to be someone who woke up every morning thinking about drugs," he said, noting that one of the worst parts of addiction was his total "incapacity to keep contracts with myself."

Kennedy said he eventually stumbled upon a book by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung that claimed people who believed in God got better faster and had more enduring recoveries, so he worked to rekindle his faith and started attending #12-step meetings.

🚨🚨🚨 ima fan of #Jung too. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. Carl Jung

Kennedy was interrupted several times by hecklers shouting things like, "Believe science!" He has been heavily criticized by #scientists and public health experts for pushing fringe theories about diet, vaccines, measles and autism, among other things.

🚨🚨🚨 I have never heckled anyone at any speech 🎤 because I believe in #freespeech

One heckler was escorted out of the ballroom with a raised middle finger. Without responding directly to the hecklers, Kennedy said that he tries to learn from every interaction, even with people who give him the finger because they don't like his driving.

‼️ we’re those hecklers staged plants?

"God talks to me most through those people," he told the group.

University of Washington researcher Caleb Banta-Green was among those escorted out after he stood up and shouted, "Believe science! Respect spirituality! Respect choice! Respect government workers!"

"Spirituality is an essential part of recovery for some people; 12 step works great for the people it works for, however, it should never be mandated," Banta-Green said in an email after the program.

🚨🚨🚨: addicts don’t recover when forced. Again #science shows that.

He added, "We have decades of science-based interventions that are proven effective for supporting recovery and reducing death from substance use disorder. The problem we have is massive underfunding."

AP Medical Writer Carla K. Johnson in Washington state contributed.

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