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If You Have ADHD, You Need to Know RFK Jr’s Plans for People on Meds

Don’t panic…yet. But maybe get ready.

I’ve resisted writing much about the election, because…well, it certainly didn’t go the way I expected or wanted, and that is still a sore spot.

However, when I saw the news that Trump was going to make good on his promise to make RFK Jr. the Secretary of Health and Human Services, I had a random thought: I wonder what this vaccine-denying conspiracy theorist thinks about ADHD and medications?

So I “did my own research” (aka lots of DuckDuckGo queries) and at first was encourage by the fact that most of the results were about his other health opinions, but nothing on the first page mentioned ADHD.

Then I read Kiera Butler’s article in Mother Jones, and I got very, very worried.

Screen capture from Mother Jones because I refuse to send traffic to X.

The Terrifying Words of Malicious Care

The plan is pretty straightforward, as RFK Jr. put it during a live recording of the Latino Capitalist podcast (all quotes are his words :

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