Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has credited heroin with beforehand serving to him enhance his efficiency in class, based on a resurfaced clip that’s been circulating on social media.
The clip, from a June episode of the “Shawn Ryan Show,” options the 70-year-old polarizing politician — who’s been tapped by Trump to steer the Division of Well being and Human Providers — saying he carried out “very poorly in school until [he] started doing narcotics.”
“Then I went to the top of my class because my mind was so restless and turbulent and I could not sit still,” he stated of his previous heroin use. “It worked for me.”
Although Kennedy referred to as his 1983 arrest for heroin possession “the best thing that could have happened” as a result of it led to his eventual sobriety, he admitted that if heroin “still worked” for him, he’d “still be doing it.”
Kennedy’s feedback got here as he was nonetheless working his ill-fated impartial marketing campaign for the White Home. The Kids’s Well being Protection chair dropped out of the presidential race in August, at which level he endorsed Trump’s bid for reelection. Kennedy later stated Trump promised to offer him management of a number of companies overseeing well being in a future administration.
Days earlier than being formally introduced as Trump’s decide for secretary of well being, the controversial anti-vaccine activist repeated his need to take away fluoride from nationwide consuming water, presumably reversing what’s thought-about one of many high public well being achievements in American historical past.
With out citing any proof, Kennedy claimed on X that fluoride has been “associated with arthritis, bone fractures, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders and thyroid disease.”
