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Seems like a really bad idea to give swaths of people a common enemy and then taking away the thing that prevents them from feeling like they have nothing left to lose.

Everything you tell a doctor is public record to be used against you. I don't want this to sound like I am anti medicine or don't think people should be able to receive treatment, this is just a fact of life if you live in an authoritarian society like the USA. All the stuff about doctor patient confidentiality is total bullshit and they have a legal requirement to report you in many cases which can be expanded at any time. I'd never tell a doctor I used drugs, I smoked, I had any unhealthy habits, or had any sort of forbidden thoughts. Treat doctors like cops and only tell them what you'd be comfortable with the police knowing. You have a right (for now) to remain silent.

This headline and article are focused on antidepressants, but the line which mentions them in the executive order which this reporting is based on is actually broader.

It also seems to attribute the authorship of the executive order to Kennedy, linking to it while saying that he "issued a statement", despite it not actually mentioning his name and it being phrased in the first person from the president (beginning with "By the authority vested in me as President" as is usual for an executive order).

The article says (emphasis mine):

The government, he said, would “assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, [and] mood stabilizers.”

While the executive order says:

(iii) assess the prevalence of and threat posed by the prescription of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, antipsychotics, mood stabilizers, stimulants, and weight-loss drugs;

RFK's crusade against SSRIs reeks of political theater masquerading as public health. Another day, another scapegoat for systemic decay. His "wellness farms" fantasy—where you detox from Zoloft by growing kale—ignores the real crisis: a nation where access to mental healthcare is a luxury and school shootings get solved with thoughts and prayers.

Fifteen thousand physicians called him out, yet here we are. The man who built a career on vaccine conspiracy theories now wants to pathologize the pills keeping millions functional. This isn't policy—it's performance art for the paranoid.

Meanwhile, the actual addicts? They're dying in parking lots with fentanyl in their veins. But sure, let's spend tax dollars building rural communes for Adderall users. Modern problems require medieval solutions, apparently.

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The whims of a brain damaged man who did his own research.

Might as well hand the keys to a Facebook mom's group

not only do these people want to do fascism, they want you to rawdog it

Edit: having read this back to myself, I realise that the alternative of non-rawdogged fascism would be much more unlikely

Kennedy said he planned to dedicate money generated from a sales tax on cannabis products to “creating wellness farms—drug rehabilitation farms, in rural areas all over this country.” He added, “I’m going to create these wellness farms where they can go to get off of illegal drugs, off of opiates, but also illegal drugs, other psychiatric drugs, if they want to, to get off of SSRIs, to get off of benzos, to get off of Adderall, and to spend time as much time as they need—three or four years if they need it—to learn to get reparented

Sounds like a replacement for the cheap agricultural labour immigrants presented.

I take anti-depressants and I have never shot up a school. I actually need them to manage my anxiety and OCD.

Time to start titrating off of them, because when he makes them illegal, if you're still at your full dose, going off SSRIs cold turkey is extremely dangerous.

This guy will leave office with a very clear body count, and not the sexy kind.