{"id":20375,"date":"2025-01-18T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T10:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20375"},"modified":"2025-01-18T10:26:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T10:26:30","slug":"kennedys-plan-for-the-drug-crisis-a-network-of-healing-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=20375","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy\u2019s Plan for the Drug Crisis: A Network of \u2018Healing Farms\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The positions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines and drug companies are well known. His approach to addiction has been far less scrutinized.<\/p>\n

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In dark bluejeans and work shirt, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in a Texas farm field, faced a camera and outlined his plan to combat drug addiction.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m going to bring a new industry to these forgotten corners of America, where addicts can help each other recover from their addictions,\u201d he said in a 45-minute documentary, \u201cRecovering America: A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis,\u201d<\/a> released in June by his presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to build hundreds of healing farms where American kids can reconnect to America\u2019s soil, where they can learn the discipline of hard work that rebuilds self-esteem and where they can master new skills,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

As Mr. Kennedy prepares for his confirmation hearings to become federal health secretary, he has faced intense focus for his views of vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry, nutrition and chronic disease. But there has been little discussion of his ideas to address the drug crisis, one of the country\u2019s deadliest problems, which he refers to as a \u201cplague.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration<\/a>, a federal agency that Mr. Kennedy would oversee if confirmed, roughly 48.5 million Americans have a substance use disorder involving drugs, alcohol or both. According to the most recent provisional federal data,<\/a> there were nearly 90,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months that ended in August 2024.<\/p>\n

The way Mr. Kennedy overcame his own addiction to heroin<\/a> informs his approach to treatment generally. He often invokes<\/a> his \u201cspiritual realignment,\u201d anchored by a belief in God<\/a>, and reinforced by more than 40 years of daily 12-step-program meetings.<\/p>\n

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The positions of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on vaccines and drug companies are well known. His approach to addiction has been far less scrutinized.In dark bluejeans and work shirt, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in a Texas farm field, faced a camera and outlined his plan to combat drug addiction.\u201cI\u2019m going to bring a new industry to these forgotten corners of America, where addicts can help each other recover from their addictions,\u201d he said in a 45-minute documentary, \u201cRecovering America: A Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis,\u201d released in June by his presidential campaign.\u201cWe\u2019re going to build hundreds of healing farms where American kids can reconnect to America\u2019s soil, where they can learn the discipline of hard work that rebuilds self-esteem and where they can master new skills,\u201d he continued.As Mr. Kennedy prepares for his confirmation hearings to become federal health secretary, he has faced intense focus for his views of vaccines, the pharmaceutical industry, nutrition and chronic disease. But there has been little discussion of his ideas to address the drug crisis, one of the country\u2019s deadliest problems, which he refers to as a \u201cplague.\u201dAccording to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, a federal agency that Mr. Kennedy would oversee if confirmed, roughly 48.5 million Americans have a substance use disorder involving drugs, alcohol or both. According to the most recent provisional federal data, there were nearly 90,000 drug overdose deaths in the 12 months that ended in August 2024.The way Mr. Kennedy overcame his own addiction to heroin informs his approach to treatment generally. He often invokes his \u201cspiritual realignment,\u201d anchored by a belief in God, and reinforced by more than 40 years of daily 12-step-program meetings.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20377,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20375"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20378,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20375\/revisions\/20378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}