Time to repost this again from 6 months ago. I can’t tell anyone what to post, nor do I want to, but there is plenty for which to despise RFK Jr. Being in recovery is not one of them.
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The big assumption here is that RFK Jr. is still in recovery.
aug 31, 2025, 5:37 pm • 9 0 • view
But Hunter Biden! Let’s see his dick again! But seriously, I was at the gym the other day, and decided to wear jeans with a belt and tuck my T-shirt in. No..not really, but I know the reaction I’d get…the reaction HE gets from Whisky Pete and Fox is NOT normal.
aug 31, 2025, 5:22 pm • 0 0 • view
However….It’s not being in recovery that’s problematic. The extreme amount of substance use in his past very likely has resulted in cognitive deficits as well as chronic, bizarre ideas and behavior. He dumped a dead bear in Central Park for God’s sake.
sep 1, 2025, 9:00 am • 2 0 • view
⬆️This part.
sep 1, 2025, 9:01 am • 1 0 • view
He gets his testosterone (medically approved of course) while that same drug is being denied to others. That is what gets me, among other things of course.
aug 31, 2025, 5:09 pm • 2 0 • view
*His* past heroin addiction isn't the problem. It's that he seems to want to make other people heroin addicts. He said he used it to self-medicate his undiagnosed, untreated ADHD, and now he wants to deny people with ADHD their helpful meds. He likes hurting people. Look what Caroline Kennedy said.
aug 31, 2025, 4:20 pm • 15 2 • view
This.
aug 31, 2025, 4:23 pm • 4 0 • view
Agree with you!
aug 31, 2025, 6:44 pm • 0 0 • view
According to the NIDA “Studies have shown some deterioration of the brain’s white matter due to heroin use, which may affect decision-making abilities.” This man doesn’t have an everyday kind of job. He runs our healthcare and we are supposed to ignore that he may be doing so with a damaged brain?
aug 31, 2025, 5:16 pm • 10 1 • view
Also from NIDA: “Repeated heroin use changes the physical structure and physiology of the brain, creating long-term imbalances in neuronal and hormonal systems that are not easily reversed.”I agree that disparaging people in recovery is generally not good. He chose to accept a highly demanding job.
aug 31, 2025, 5:19 pm • 7 1 • view
It’s not a job that just anyone can do for a variety of reasons. We can talk about all of those reasons but not the heroin addiction?
aug 31, 2025, 5:20 pm • 5 0 • view
We definitely can talk about the neurological reasons why he is unqualified for the job. Other things that have impacted his brain and decision-making abilities are the worm and tuna-induced mercury poisoning. Those should be included in the conversation along with the addiction hypothesis.
aug 31, 2025, 6:05 pm • 1 0 • view
There could be a discussion on the difference between recovering and just abstaining.
sep 2, 2025, 2:50 pm • 0 0 • view
He was an addict for 14 years from adolescence when his brain was still growing, his prefrontal cortex developing behaviors such as judgment, empathy, and impulse-control. What I’ve read suggests that people like him are forever frozen emotionally at the age they were when they became addicts.
aug 31, 2025, 6:06 pm • 1 0 • view
Well said, Doc. I've known some incredible people who've done amazing things with their lives in recovery. Recovery is, for the most part, a hugely positive thing for both individuals and their communities. And RFK, Jr is a flaming piece of feces. Those two things can be true.
aug 31, 2025, 4:31 pm • 9 0 • view
He's got an addictive personality (sex, steroids, heroin), is a narcissist and compulsive liar/gas-lighter. He's not recovered from anything - he's just not doing the heroin. Everything else he's doing is a replacement.
aug 31, 2025, 6:13 pm • 5 0 • view
The set of "incredible people who've done amazing things with their lives in recovery" certainly doesn't include that self-obsessed, narcissistic piece of shit. Rather, he's a member of the set of "Fuck that guy" guys. More specifically, he is everything wrong with a patriarchy built on privilege.
aug 31, 2025, 6:27 pm • 3 0 • view
He is a piece of shit and his siblings must be horrified, especially when you think about his father's legacy and activism. JFK was beloved by people of all color across the nation. A look at RFK's final journey by train will make you cry . . . www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZsK...
aug 31, 2025, 6:52 pm • 1 0 • view
And those deaths will be anonymous without oversight. We'll never know.
aug 31, 2025, 5:58 pm • 3 0 • view
It’s already been a problem. Will just get worse. My garden sucks so I’m at risk with my family. Food borne illnesses do not discriminate foods either. No safe foods.
aug 31, 2025, 6:07 pm • 1 0 • view
Agreed, his self medicating stance is what is dangerous. I currently have a patient on our ICU who is in liver failure, vented and on CRRT (a form of dialysis) who will hopefully get accepted by another hospital. This situation could have been prevented if they didn't self medicate.
aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 2 0 • view
I'm not saying that RFK influenced this patient's self medication decision. I'm just pointing out that someone who is into psuedoscience shouldn't be in charge of our healthcare. The man can't read a research study and thinks riboflavin is poison.
aug 31, 2025, 5:26 pm • 4 1 • view
That's the scary part; RIBOFLAVIN is just vitamin B2!✅️ RFK, Jr. is an idiot!
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view
Here's the link to the video. www.instagram.com/reel/DHJmQMg...
aug 31, 2025, 6:56 pm • 0 0 • view
Only problem with his addiction is that he failed to OD.
aug 31, 2025, 8:22 pm • 0 0 • view
I personally would not put any addict I know in charge of anything. They do have a core flaw, inability to control oneself.
aug 31, 2025, 5:50 pm • 0 0 • view
Do you think it is impossible for all addicts to overcome this core flaw or just the ones you know?
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Everyone can overcome the flaw, but they can be very dangerous in leadership positions.
sep 1, 2025, 7:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Plenty to be critical about without turning recovery into a weapon to be wielded against RFK jr, and therefore anyone in recovery.
aug 31, 2025, 5:55 pm • 1 0 • view
sep 1, 2025, 10:45 am • 0 0 • view
Two things can be true at the same time. Being in recovery doesn't make you a bad person, and being a former heroin addict should disqualify you from being the head of HHS.
aug 31, 2025, 5:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Why though?
aug 31, 2025, 5:36 pm • 0 0 • view
The head of HHS should have a history of good judgement.
aug 31, 2025, 7:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Credibility and risk of relapse are two reasons that quickly come to mind.
aug 31, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
Also the fact that he went from heroin addiction to using steroids to enhance his sense of his own masculinity.
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 0 0 • view
And HGH, either/both of which he is obviously still using.
aug 31, 2025, 6:11 pm • 0 0 • view
As I noted above, addiction in adolescence while a human brain is still developing (which continues deep into our 20s) forever damages its architecture and prevents users from maturing in important ways. I read a lot on this topic during the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.
aug 31, 2025, 6:15 pm • 0 0 • view
People judge addicts because they see addiction as a moral failing. Anyone can struggle with addiction, none of us are immune to it. RFK Jr has so many disqualifications that are much more relevant than his history of addiction.
aug 31, 2025, 6:34 pm • 0 0 • view
I've known a number of addicts. They aren't bad people, but all of them displayed a history of poor judgement prior to their addiction issues. Addiction doesn't equal immorality, but it's not immaterial for an HHS Secretary.
aug 31, 2025, 7:35 pm • 0 0 • view
There are much more amusing things to share about him. One of my favs is the pic of him taking a bite out of the bar-b-qued dog. Then there is him on the chin-up bar wearing jeans. Or his ex’s stories of stuff he tried to get her to do. The man is as self-centered and whacky as anyone you’ve met.
aug 31, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
100%. I have known an addict that was a complete piece of shit, but I am willing to believe it wasn’t the heroin that was the problem in the first place.
aug 31, 2025, 5:16 pm • 4 0 • view
People can be actually evil without any other perceived "flaw" or whatever.
aug 31, 2025, 9:26 pm • 0 0 • view
Thank you
aug 31, 2025, 6:00 pm • 0 0 • view
So are you saying there are no permanent physiological or psychological alterations in a person after over a decade of heroin abuse? I get the recovery part. Just want to confirm the fitness part.
aug 31, 2025, 7:13 pm • 0 0 • view
It's difficult to select RFK, Jr.'s craziest comment, but this may be it. I didn't realize that he basically suggested that the Trump 45 administration created the Covid pandemic: www.thebulwark.com/p/rfk-govern...
sep 2, 2025, 2:45 pm • 0 0 • view
It has occurred to me that a eugenicist would argue that a family that produces a number of alcoholics/drug abusers shouldn't be allowed to propagate. I wonder what RFK would think of this. Someone should ask him.
aug 31, 2025, 4:01 pm • 6 0 • view
Nonsense, I can spit on a recovering addict with every bit as much venom as I would spit on a current addict.
aug 31, 2025, 6:14 pm • 0 0 • view
So true. We've come to think of addiction as a permanent state. It's a difficult problem to have, for sure, yet people recover all the time.
aug 31, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
WTF are you talking about, it is a permanent state. People being sober does not mean they're cured.
aug 31, 2025, 9:22 pm • 0 0 • view
That's the problem, people think as you do. Yet you are living and working with recovered addict of all sorts. Too bad they can't speak freely about how they got better.
aug 31, 2025, 9:29 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh geez, you call yourself a recovering addict. I'm just saying that your health history does not permanently disqualify you from jobs that requires sound decision making. If you're not there yet, believe that you will get there.
aug 31, 2025, 10:00 pm • 0 0 • view
Tbh, growing up with the trauma of being a Kennedy likely led him to substance abuse and gave him a warped perception of how things ought to be. His uncle and father were assassinated. His aunt was lobotomized, then hidden away for being disabled. Brain worm and mercury poisoning didn't help either.
aug 31, 2025, 6:17 pm • 1 0 • view
🧐 I think it’s a bit more problematic if said person in recovery becomes the Secretary of HEALTH
aug 31, 2025, 5:23 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes. Much like we shouldn't shame alcoholics in recovery, but maybe they don't get to be Secretary of Defense. Lots of people used to get disqualified for a security clearance for less.
aug 31, 2025, 7:15 pm • 3 0 • view
It's absolutely fair to question if he is back to being an addict given his behavior.
aug 31, 2025, 5:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Fuck him and fair point, that’s true.
aug 31, 2025, 5:24 pm • 0 0 • view
While being in recovery itself is not reason to judge, when you’re making questionable decisions as leader of Health, it’s fair to question how much damage was done by years of abuse.
aug 31, 2025, 6:08 pm • 2 0 • view
The irony of his concerns with his past use need to be clear. Quit making heroin users and people in recovery look bad. My sister was an asshole. She became an alcoholic and bigger asshole. Got clean. Still an asshole.
aug 31, 2025, 6:03 pm • 1 0 • view