Daily Dumb: Trump's Health Secretary Wants to Ban Antidepressants, Make Patients grow Their Own Food Instead.

[Bray123]

Antidepressants cause school shootings. So ban them (the antidepressants, not the school shootings).

Hours after being confirmed as Secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. issued a statement that laid out sweeping plans for his first 100 days in office. Chief among his goals, he wrote, was to combat what he called a “growing health crisis” of chronic disease. The document called for the federal government to investigate the “root causes” of a broad range of conditions, including autism, ADHD, asthma, obesity, multiple sclerosis, and psoriasis. Conspicuously absent was any explicit mention of childhood vaccines, which Kennedy has long railed against as the head of the anti-vaccine advocacy group Children’s Health Defense.

But the document did zero in on another one of his fixations: a class of widely prescribed drugs that treat depression, anxiety, and mood disorders.

In a podcast appearance last July, Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented, to reconnect with communities.” The farm residents would grow their own organic food because, he suggested, many of their underlying problems could be “food-related.”

Does his Great & Glorious Supreme Leader know that he wants people to get off Adderall?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/

 

[MajorRewrite]

Antidepressants cause school shootings. So ban them (the antidepressants, not the school shootings).




Does his Great & Glorious Supreme Leader know that he wants people to get off Adderall?
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/kennedy-rfk-antidepressants-ssri-school-shootings/

“To learn to get reparented”???

Conspiracy loons love to spout gibberish.

 

[Politruk]

RFK was running for the Dem nomination. He had some followers. Trump promised him a Cabinet post in exchange for RFK's endorsement, so he could fold those into his own coalition.

We may be sure he never thought about it any further than that.

 

[Dearelliot]

Had he been offered the same job by a Democrat President, every Republican senator would have voted against him! That's what Washington DC looks like today.
Not what he says or stands for but his party affiliation!