A worm ate parts of his brain, he is strongly against vaccinations, adheres to conspiracy theories – and now future US Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is downplaying it. also heroin. This would have made him a model student, he claimed in an interview.
“I was really, really bad at school until I started doing drugs,” Kennedy said in a now-resurfaced video currently circulating on social media. The statement was made in July in an interview during Kennedy’s own presidential campaign on the “Shawn Ryan Show.”
“Then I became the best in the class.”
During the podcast interview, the Democrat, who eventually gave up his ambitions to become president and started supporting Trump, recalled that drugs had improved his academic performance. “At the time I was at the top of my class because my mind was so restless and agitated and I couldn’t sit still,” Kennedy said of his previous heroin use. “And if it still worked, I would still take it.”
Drug abuse ultimately feels like a ‘compulsion’
In the interview, Kennedy described his drug abuse as a “compulsion” that ultimately “erodes your entire life.” Cocaine and heroin were his drugs of choice. In 1983, while flying to Minnesota for rehabilitation, he was arrested for heroin possession, he recalled. And at least he added that it was the best thing that could have happened to him.
This event ultimately led to him becoming sober. “The most demoralizing feature of this disease was my inability to keep the contracts with myself,” he said of the difficulty he had in overcoming his addiction.
Heroin use is not a good idea
According to the American National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), heroin users usually experience a brief “high” after taking the drug and then enter a drowsy state in which “mental function is clouded, heart function slows, and breathing becomes severely impaired.” is delayed. , sometimes so severe that it can be life-threatening,” and the NIDA adds that slowed breathing can lead to permanent brain damage.
Kennedy, who is best known as an anti-vaccination activist, has recently made headlines with controversial statements about what he might do as health secretary.
Raw milk despite urgent warnings about bird flu
Among other things, Kennedy suggested that Americans start consuming raw milk, even though bird flu was found in batches of the unpasteurized drink. He also stated his intention to remove fluoride from drinking water, claiming without evidence in an X-post (formerly Twitter) that it is “linked to arthritis, broken bones, bone cancer, IQ loss, neurodevelopmental disorders and thyroid disease.”
Source: Krone
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