Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump's health secretary pick, claimed during a podcast interview that heroin helped his studies.

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Fact Check: RFK Jr. says heroin helped him reach top of his class

Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services said his introduction to drugs happened the summer after his father was assassinated

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Bottom-of-the-class RFK Jr says he went to the top after he started taking heroin

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. struggled with drugs like cocaine, heroin, and LSD for 14 years before finally getting sober.

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Jimmy Kimmel tears into RFK Jr for past heroin use, ‘Remember kids! Stay in school and do drugs’

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has credited heroin with previously helping him improve his performance in school, according to a resurfaced clip that’s been circulating on social media. The clip, from a June episode of the “Shawn Ryan Show,” features the 70-year-old polarizing politician — who’s been tapped by Trump to lead the Department of Health and Human Services — saying he performed “very poorly in school until [he] started doing narcotics.” “Then …

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Trump HHS nominee RFK Jr. credits heroin for improving his performance in school

During his presidential campaign, Kennedy drew a wild conclusion while discussing his history with addiction.

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RFK Jr. Says Heroin Made Him A Better Student In Resurfaced Interview

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has credited heroin with previously helping him improve his performance in school, according to a resurfaced clip that’s been circulating on social media.

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Jimmy Kimmel joked that a recent Robert F. Kennedy Jr interview, in which he discussed using narcotics and heroin in school, will serve as a "great lesson" for kids.

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Jimmy Kimmel Mocks "Mr. Anti-Pharmaceutical" RFK Jr.'s Heroin Use:...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.  — the next U.S. health secretary, if Donald Trump has his way — extolls the virtues of heroin as if he were peddling a brain-boosting supplement on QVC. "I was at the bottom of my class," he confessed on the Shawn Ryan Show podcast a few months ago, before Trump tapped him for the Department of Health and Human Services. — Read the rest  The post RFK Jr. is against vaccines — but praises the benefits of heroin appeared fir…

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RFK Jr. is against vaccines — but praises the benefits of heroin

The incoming administration is already a shitshow coming to you by you know who, and one of his unqualified picks is RFK, Jr to head theDepartment of Health and Human Services.  Oh, and by the way, while RFK Jr. continues to tout the use of raw milk, California health authorities acted to recall raw milk that had been contaminated with bird flu. Good going there, sport. But he also has thoughts about heroin.   The Daily Beast reports: Just a few…

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'Bouncing Off Walls': RFK Credits Academic Success On Heroin

On the 'Shawn Ryan Show' podcast, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claimed he did 'very poorly' in school until he started 'doing narcotics.'

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Mocked for Admitting He Went to the 'Top' of His Class After Taking Heroin in Resurfaced Video

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Recirculated Clip of RFK Speaking About How Heroin Use in Law School Made Him a Top Student Reignites Debate

Recirculated Clip of RFK Speaking About How Heroin Use in Law School Made Him a Top Student Reignites Debate

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