President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Health, the controversial Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK Jr.), said in an interview last July that garnered attention this week: heroin helped him become “top of class” during his studies, although he regretted his addiction which lasted more than a decade.
RFK Jr. revealed details about your dependencies in an interview on the podcast ‘Shawn Ryan Show’ in July, when he was still an independent candidate in the US elections, before retiring and joining the campaign of the eventual winner, Donald Trump, as ambassador of the health.
Kennedy Jr. has spoken openly about his long history of drug use, which started at 15shortly after the assassination of his father, Robert F. Kennedy, attorney general and brother of President John F. Kennedy.
Kennedy Jr. admitted that at age 15, An acquaintance offered him LSD: “I had never taken drugs. I took it right after my father was murdered. I took a trip that probably lasted ten hours and I had a great time.”
After LSD, He used peyote, methamphetamine, and later cocaine and heroin.. Regarding intravenous heroin, he said: “I started using heroin and I was at the top of my class. Suddenly I could read, concentrate and listen to what people were saying. Things were making sense to me.
While in college, the drugs he used the most were cocaine and heroin, and he became addicted to them as well. alcohol and marijuana. Kennedy Jr. acknowledges that his addictions could have ended his life, as happened with one of his brothers. He finally managed to detox after being arrested for heroin possession: “The addiction gets worse every day until it kills you.”
