JFK backing the elimination of incredibly successful Narcan program

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Hey, in order to make another tax-cut omelet for billionaires, a few eggs need to be broken:

Despite his own history of overcoming heroin addiction, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is backing plans to end a federal Narcan distribution program credited with helping drive a steep drop in U.S. overdose deaths.

… Recent CDC data shows a nearly 24% drop in overdose deaths for the 12 months ending September 2024, the sharpest one-year decline in decades—an achievement partly attributed to widespread naloxone access.

But hey, Pam Bondi assures us Trump has already saved 119…no, 258 million American lives, so they don’t need things like this.

Also:

The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned.

The elimination of the National Institutes of Health’s role in the program, which helped slash infant deaths in the 2000s, comes at a time when sleep-related deaths among infants have increased. Sudden infant death rates were up nearly 12% between 2020 and 2022, according to the most recent data in a study published in JAMA Pediatrics.

It’s all waste, fraud, and abuse, doncha know. Thanks, Elmo.