RFK JR. To finish the Narcan “Darosend” program, which helped reduce the death of an overdose despite his earlier addiction to heroin

Despite his own history of overcoming heroin addiction, Secretary for Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Supporting plans to end the Federal Narcan Distribution Program, which aims to help in increasing death from an overdose of the USA.

Narcan, a widely used drug overdose, played an important role in reducing opioids’ deaths, especially among the fentanyl crisis.

Annual subsidy program of $ 56 million through the administration of abuse of substance and mental health (Samhs) financed Narcan distribution to the first rescuers in the whole country, trained over 66,000 people and distributed over 282,500 sets in 2024 last last 2024 CDC The data shows almost 24% of an overdose of overdose in 12 months of the ending September 2024, the most sharpest annual decline in decades-a life partly attributed to the broadly intensive access to Nalloxon.

Speaking on Thursday at the illegal summit of drugs in Nashville, Kennedy thought about his personal fight against addiction and emphasized the importance of community, treatment and hope in solving the drug crisis, USA Today Reported. However, behind the scenes, the Trump administration budget project includes serious cutting of addiction programs, including the termination of the Narcan subsidy, in accordance with Independent.

“Narcan was a kind of gift of heaven when it comes to opioid epidemics, and we are certainly in the middle of one with Fentanyl,” said Donald McNamara from the Faculty of Sheriff of Los Angeles. “We need this source of financing because it saves life every day.”

Although Kennedy had previously praised interventions such as Narcan for crucial for saving his life, he now defines the crisis as requiring deeper, spiritual and social changes, instead of relying only on medical solutions “nuts and screws”.

The proposal attracted a rapid condemnation of addiction specialists and supporters of public health, who warn that the reduction of Narcana’s financing may reverse progress on the death of overdose. Critics say that the removal of life -saving tools, while wider social corrections are slowly implemented, would expose the threatened communities.

While national deaths have dropped, experts warn that the epidemic is far from the end, especially in the states that are still occurring. The end of federal support Narcan can slow down and even reverse the latest profits.