The country’s main mental health agency, the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration, commonly known as SAMHSA, is in the process of being dissolved. It has lost more than a third of its staff of about 900 this year as part of recent reductions in the federal workforce. President Trump’s budget bill cuts $1 billion from the agency’s operating budget, and its mission is being folded into a new entity shaped by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
In March, Kennedy and the Department of Health and Human Services announced that SAMHSA, and other divisions, would be combined into a new entity called the Administration for a Healthy America, or AHA.
“Why would we, when we are finally seeing some success, bury that success, put it in an AHA program?” Dean asked. “We have to now rehire people and figure out what their roles will be within AHA?”
Kennedy didn’t answer her question, but said he would ensure people with addiction have access to overdose prevention and other medications.
RFK does not believe in GERM THEORY. This should have automatically excluded him from any sort of position dealing with anything having to do with medicine. We are so fucked.
Great. I have two relatives that were homeless and live in halfway houses. Back to the streets for them but I might not be far behind.
By his definition, the mentally ill and addicted are inferior and not deserving of assistance. That this may lead to their deaths is pretty much the goal.
It’s unfortunate, but it’s a sacrifice Bobby is eager to make.
This is a real good way to build/keep up the population we seem to have a problem replacing…. Fucking idiots. RFK has the brain capacity of a potato.
A potato would be more qualified for that position than RFK Jr.
Yeah, a potato would most likely not change anything and keep things the way they are. A bit like a modern day DNC democrat…
The potato would not be my preferred candidate.
It would simply be a better candidate than RFK Jr.
Alt: a holy potato with a worm. Credit: potatonewstoday.com
