RFK Jr. Says Doing Heroin Made Him a Star Student

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Daily Beast

Published Nov. 26 2024 9:48AM EST


Just a few months before Donald Trump nominated Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to oversee U.S. health policy, the former presidential candidate was painting a shocking picture of heroin’s effectiveness as a study aid.

“I was at the bottom of my class,” he said during a podcast appearance on the Shawn Ryan Show. “I started doing heroin, and I went to the top of my class. Suddenly I could sit still, and I could read and I could concentrate. I could listen to what people were saying.”

The interview aired in July, during Kennedy’s unsuccessful run for president, but has resurfaced on social media now that the president-elected has nominated him to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services.
The former environmental lawyer is perhaps best known for peddling vaccine conspiracies theories and trying to limit access to one of civilization’s greatest medical achievements. But he’s also been open about his struggles with addiction.

During the July interview, Kennedy explained how he first tried LSD when he was 15, the summer his father Robert F. Kennedy Sr. was assassinated. After LSD, he quickly moved on to heroin and cocaine, which were his “drugs of choice” until he finally managed to get sober 14 years later. The drugs “hollowed out” his life and destroyed his relationships, but they made him a star student, he said.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/robert-f-kennedy-jr-says-doing-heroin-made-him-a-star-student/

[NotHardly]

1. It is called being delusional with a brain worm.

[ananda]

11. ... and an uninhibited id.

In fact, I think having an uninhibited id might
be a job description for all the Magats in
the upcoming admin.

They seem to have no filter or any sort of
desire to appear decent or normal.

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Not much different

than WBush obliterating his brain with cocaine and alcohol for decades........

Personally, I think if the RepubliCONs legalized all drugs it would be of help for the citizens of the U.S. coping with what's coming....

Trump could set it up with the Mexican Cartels, have them agree to allow his spawn to handle ALL distribution rights in the U.S.

He could make a ton more money than his daughter and Jared did when they took total control of distribution of all PPE during the epidemic. They made a fortune from that, along with the TWO BILLION bonus from the Saudis for selling them intelligence.....

Kennedy just wants access to the pharmaceuticals that Trump was handing out in his "white house pharmacy"......No name, no Rx, no record of anyone visiting the pharmacy.....

[Irish_Dem]

56. Trump would love a big piece of the sex and drug trade.

Maybe that is why he is threatening the cartels.

[DENVERPOPS]

57. What woman

in their right mind would ever sleep with him, if he didn't pay????????????

If he did enough illegal drugs, maybe he would end up like Rush Limbaugh......wishful thinking........

[Irish_Dem]

58. Power is the best aphrodisiac.

No money needed.

The women will swarm to you.
After they get the required plastic surgery, botox, make up and hair extensions
to get the TTL (Trump tramp look.)

[WA-03 Democrat]

2. Legalize it n/t

[LiberalArkie]

3. Ahh, Legalize Heroin and LSD..Legalise all for personal use might solve a lot of problems

[elleng]

4. He ALSO said the positive effects DID NOT LAST.

[SCantiGOP]

16. Steve Jobs would disagree

He says he would have never founded Apple had he not taken LSD.

[Javaman]

33. chasing the high outweighed his want for better grades...

jr is a halfwit.

[IronLionZion]

5. Decriminalize it sure, but let's not encourage students to start using it

[SCantiGOP]

17. My kids all know I took it several times

In my teens and 20s. Two of them talked to me before they tried mushrooms, and we all
agree that it was a exhilarating and beneficial process.

[2naSalit]

6. Yeah...

Like he found a dealer who could write his papers.

[Sneederbunk]

7. Won't have vaccinations but will inject heroin?

That's one powerful worm.

[travelingthrulife]

9. And eat road kill.

[Rebl2]

12. 🙄🙄🙄

He’s an idiot

[relayerbob]

8. I bet he posted his grades to prove it?

Somehow, his timeline doesn’t add up, but then having only ten brain cells left will do that to you.

[Joinfortmill]

10. His Wikipedia page is a hot mess of bad behavior...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy_Jr.#:~:text=In%201982%2C%20Kennedy%20was%20sworn,he%20resigned%20in%20July%201983.

'Manhattan DA's office
In 1982, Kennedy was sworn in as an assistant district attorney for Manhattan.[3] After failing the New York bar exam, he resigned in July 1983.[33]

Conviction for heroin possession
On September 16, 1983, Kennedy was charged with heroin possession in Rapid City, South Dakota.[33] In February 1984 he pleaded guilty to a single felony charge of possession of heroin, and was sentenced to two years of probation and community service...'

'BE BEST'

[Ray Bruns]

35. So he'll fit right in in a Trump administration.

[Rebl2]

13. 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫

[WestMichRad]

14. So he's still doing acid?

Hmmm…

[Alice Kramden]

15. This guy has no brains left

And he's too impaired to know it

[LudwigPastorius]

18. Something deeply wrong with this man's mind.

Maybe the acid cross-wired his brain before it had even matured.

[cstanleytech]

19. RFK Jr. The Brainworm and DJT The Brainless...... what can go wrong?😵‍💫🤢🤮⚰️🪦

[mzmolly]

20. So heroin is pure, and doesn't have any additives?

It's free of dangerous fluoride?

[jmowreader]

47. As long as you get it without baking soda or rat poison, it is

I GUESS you could cut it with sodium fluoride, but that’s hard to get.

[mzmolly]

49. Maybe it's easier for RFK Jr.

to get the 'good' stuff.

[travelingthrulife]

62. yeah. Heroin is well known for producing mental acuity

This man has mental health issues. Will our illustrious Senate notice?

[NNadir]

21. The Perfect Magat, to be sure.

[flamingdem]

22. Guessing he'll be bored with all the real responsibility

and pawn it off on others.

Sad thing that he has no respect for the Covid vaccines that saved so many.

Sick, sick, sick.

[tclambert]

23. Hey, let's put this guy in charge of the country's health!

What a smart idea! Just one thing! To make sure he does his job intelligently, he MUST be on heroin at all times!

[moniss]

24. So the new guy

in charge of health is out promoting heroin use.

[union rep]

25. WTF

This guy is fucking nuts, No way Larry David didn't know that his old lady on curb was a screwball.

[SunSeeker]

26. Show us your transcripts, you lying delusional asshole.

You are a disgrace to your father's name.

[OAITW r.2.0]

27. The man is mentally ill.

Why is he being elevated to this position? Maybe an attempt to destroy the Kennedy legacy?

[questionseverything]

32. Destroying everything seems to be the plan

[delisen]

28. Vaccines bad. Heroln good . New CDC motto

Will he recommend school delivery?

[orleans]

30. oh god

i mean:

hey! he's just another terrific maga role model for the kids of america

[Akakoji]

31. He's a debilitated moron at this point.

Heroin and other opium alkaloids are actually effective treatments for a variety of psychological condition, including some forms of neurodivergence. It was the most widely prescribed medicine in the US for at least 100 years ' along with cocaine. But the majority of individuals that use opiates for that reason are incapable of dealing with the most common unwanted side effect ' addiction. Heroin, or more specifically opium, that has been standardized to deliver a septic dose, could indeed have done what RFK Jr. says it did. But that was well before the advent of synthetic opiates that are hundreds of times more powerful even in the hands of the experienced, and of course the use of cocaine. Although a common addition to Coca Cola ) that is where it got it´s name, and at one time ingested by hundred of thousands of working women in the US to work for long and oppressive hours for low wages and little food expense. Cocaine hydrochloride is a drug used by clinicians (4% solution) typically as a local anesthetic by ear, nose and throat doctors when performing any type of procedure that involve the nasal passages. There's not really another drug that can replace the vasoconstricting and anesthetizing propertied of the drug. Like a drug such as propofol, however, it is never prescribed outside of a medical setting or at least directly to a patient. In the case of RFK Jr., however, he most likely was getting cocaine cut with levamisole, a drug used to treat warts caused by viruses, leprosy, and parasites or worms in humans and other animals. It basically works by stimulating the worms muscles until they become paralyzed and die. Of course worms in many countries have become resistant to the drug. The reason it is often used to cut cocaine, as is fentanyl and a range of other potentially lethal chemicals, is that it can have anti-depressant, mood elevating, neurologically stimulating effects as a side effect. It has never been an approved drug for this indication, probably. because of the possibility of agranulocytosis- a wipeout of a huge number of white blood cells. But RFK Jr. could also have been treated with levamisole as the drug Valcor, a combination doramectine/levamisole injection for his brain worm. It's typically given to animals as an injection to treat sucking lice, mange mites, grubs, eye worms, lungworms, and GI roundworms. If you're using it in beef cattle it is advised that humans avoid eating the meat for at least 15 days. If the drug gets into groundwater it can kill off fish and insects beneficial to the environment or kills off beneficial insects that eat dung or use it to reproduce. Using contaminated heroin or cocaine for 14 years can have devastating effects on a human being.

[Vinca]

34. I would like to know what he's on now. He's got to be on drugs to believe the baloney he spews.

[womanofthehills]

46. He's big time into AA - over 40 years

Says he tries to go to a meeting every day.

I can easily see getting into drugs if your dad is murdered when you are a kid - let alone your uncle too.

[Vinca]

59. I can relate to that. My brother must be hitting 50 years of sobriety. But my brother doesn't act like a nut.

[Dem4life1234]

65. Jfk Jr lost his dad in a violent way and his uncle

Yet he never turned out to be a weirdo.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

36. Bob is a very sick person

[Maggiemayhem]

37. Or maybe just an ahole

[MustLoveBeagles]

50. They're not mutually exclusive

[TommieMommy]

38. That's why he's delusional 💡

[RobinA]

39. I Am No Fan

of RFKJr, but I can attest that opiate pain relievers do have this effect on me from time to time. An incredible focus and ability to get things done. I don't have ADHD issues or anything of the kind. I don't know why it works, and I don't use it for that purpose for obvious reasons, but it does work that way for me.

[rurallib]

40. America, meet your new heroes. Brought to you by Donald Trump!

[Prairie_Seagull]

41. Normalizing heroin use, Is not leadership.

Enough shit is thrown at our kids and gkids already.

Let's just numb the population. Then they won't even care. Sounds like the plot to some movie.
Do some dope and watch a movie. Oh yea.

[louis-t]

42. Hmmm, maybe HE should run the Dept of Education.

[GrayJedi]

43. Remember Kids - Fluoride Bad....Heroin Good

If this was coming from Rick James I would not be surprised but this is coming from the future Secretary of Health and Human Services.

[Sogo]

44. Oh yeah, like this is the type of role model we want for our kids....NOT!

What a bum.

[Windy Apple]

45. Not surprising at ...

…all and indication that he’s probably very ADHD.

[jmowreader]

48. He was using smack as an ADHD drug?

I don’t know, man…it really seems they MUST have better drugs for that.

[Blue_Tires]

51. Don't look at me, this is what

White folks voted for...

[Mike 03]

52. Good God. And the MAGAs said what about Hunter Biden? NT

[Farmer-Rick]

53. If it's good enough for RFK

It should be good enough for all of us. Free heroin and LSD for all our educational purposes. No Department of education needed. Just hand those drugs.

I need to learn a new language, maybe some Heroin will help that? Sounds like it could work.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

54. RFK Jr will obviously have zero problem getting his Top Secret security clearance. nt

[DrRaskolnik]

55. Treating ADHD

I'm a retired psychiatrist who treated adult ADHD-- with stimulants-- for years in my practice.

When I read this news report today, my first thought was that RFK, Jr. was providing a classic description of effective ADHD treatment with stimulants, which is often life-altering.

Contrary to popular misconceptions, stimulants (e.g., methylphenidate, dextroamphetamine, et.al.) are a highly effective treatment for ADHD-- in controlled studies comparing them with placebo.

I suspect that RFK, Jr. was mistakenly attributing the improvement of his ADHD symptoms to heroin, rather than stimulants.

I have no confidence in the RFK, Jr.'s medical judgment-- as we see with his debunked opinion that vaccines cause autism.

Trump is organizing a second kakistocracy-- even worse than his first disastrous administration.

[Rhiannon12866]

63. Thank you! And welcome to DU!

[Elessar Zappa]

64. Opiates always helped me focus and get things done.

At first. Then I became tolerant and didn’t work anymore.

[twodogsbarking]

60. He can go to Mars with Musk and Loser One.

[Godot51]

61. A few bowls for breakfast...

Yes. Smoking a few bowls of Pot Flakes for breakfast before school back in the 60s made me the man I am today!