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What we know about reports Trump, RFK Jr. plan to end Narcan program
Social media posts claimed the health secretary backed a White House plan to end a program that distributes the opioid ...
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RFK Jr. to End 'Godsend' Narcan Program That Helped Reduce Overdose Deaths Despite His Past Heroin Addiction
Despite overcoming heroin addiction himself, RFK Jr. is backing plans to cut a critical Narcan program that helped reduce ...
Colorado Rep. Brittany Pettersen asks RFK Jr. to maintain funding for naloxone, invokes mom’s opioid battle
U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for ...
RFK Jr. says overcoming heroin addiction influences his policy perspectives
In a speech in Nashville, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that his policy perspectives are influenced by the 14-year heroin ...
Trump plan to slash lifesaving Narcan would cost lives, Hamilton County officials say
Synan, who wrote to Trump on April 29 asking him to continue funding for naloxone and other lifesaving treatment programs, ...
Greater Cincinnati addiction expert worried about fate of federal Narcan grant
"I will say this, that President Trump in 2017 was the first president to stand up and declare the addiction crisis either a ...
RFK Jr. urges Americans to dispose of medicine safely — and to not flush them
On National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is urging Americans to dispose of their ...
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Drug overdose deaths are in a free fall — for now
“Increased naloxone distribution has saved countless lives by reversing opioid overdoses in real time,” Jessica Hulsey, founder of the Addiction Policy Forum, told Vox. This was a hard-fought ...