Summary
Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr., despite his history of heroin addiction, supports ending a $56 million federal Narcan distribution program that helped drive a nearly 24% drop in U.S. overdose deaths in 2024.
The program, administered by SAMHSA, trained over 66,000 people and distributed 282,500 kits.
Critics warn that cutting Narcan funding could reverse life-saving progress, especially as fentanyl-related overdoses persist.
Kennedy argues the crisis requires deeper societal change beyond “nuts and bolts” solutions, while public health advocates condemn the move as dangerously premature.
it’s not going to do that though
More opioid users will die. How is that not doing it?
because the growing despair will lead to new opioid users, thus ensuring no depopulation
Unless those opioid users also start breeding like rabbits you’ll still see a decline in population.
So I have bad news for you… most of the opioid overdoses I have dealt with have had kids. So now you’re getting the republican wet dream in multiple ways: hard times for the family who is left behind to care for the kids, if there is anyone. That means vulnerable kids, fucked up childhoods, and any adult is going to be much more stressed and not have much time on their hands. THAT means the pedophiles and abusers in the republicans can start having more opportunities, either through foster care environments or unattended kids. It means more kids getting into the foster system and getting dumped at 18, desperate for any job they can get, and oh, look,here’s a minimum wage job in the mines, timmy, and you can live in this one room shack provided by the company. It means more kids who aren’t going to be looked after by parents that encourage them to care about school, and now we have even more uneducated voters to feed into the republican propaganda machine.
It’s all knock on effects, and it’s not good.
I’m not sure you know how math works.