Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr. credits heroin for improving his performance in school

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has credited heroin with antecedently helping him amended his show successful school, according to a resurfaced clip that’s been circulating connected societal media.

The clip, from a June occurrence of the “Shawn Ryan Show,” features the 70-year-old polarizing person — who’s been tapped by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — saying helium performed “very poorly successful schoolhouse until [he] started doing narcotics.”

“Then I went to the apical of my people due to the fact that my caput was truthful restless and turbulent and I could not beryllium still,” helium said of his past heroin use. “It worked for me.”

Though Kennedy called his 1983 apprehension for heroin possession “the champion happening that could person happened” due to the fact that it led to his eventual sobriety, helium admitted that if heroin “still worked” for him, he’d “still beryllium doing it.”

Kennedy’s comments came arsenic helium was inactive moving his ill-fated autarkic run for the White House. The Children’s Health Defense seat dropped retired of the statesmanlike race successful August, astatine which constituent helium endorsed Trump’s bid for reelection. Kennedy aboriginal said Trump promised to springiness him power of respective agencies overseeing health successful a aboriginal administration.

Days earlier being officially announced arsenic Trump’s prime for caput of health, the controversial anti-vaccine activist repeated his tendency to remove fluoride from nationwide drinking water, perchance reversing what’s considered one of the apical nationalist wellness achievements successful American history.

Without citing immoderate evidence, Kennedy claimed connected X that fluoride has been “associated with arthritis, bony fractures, bony cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders and thyroid disease.”