In July, he publicly referred to people on SSRI’s and ADHD medications as “addicts.”

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    Former 15 year Heroin junkie throwing shade on people with real afflictions. Brain rotted moron.

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        Jesus Christ you know what I meant. This shit was tiring on Reddit and I will will call out you pedantic assholes here too

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          What? No, I didn’t know what you meant, only what you posted. Which heavily implied that addiction isn’t a real affliction.

          Am I supposed to be able to read your fucking mind?

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            No I didn’t. I said people with ADHD had a real affliction. It was RFK who was trying to trivialize it

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      Just to be clear that’s a pretty low blow. There’s so much fucked about the guy without going against addiction, which is a real and devastating illness.

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        It’s about the hypocrisy. He’s had real addiction issues and considers blind-tested medicine to be the same. I don’t think anyone that has had a heroin addiction should ever be the top government healthcare voice, no matter their personal recovery. You need to earn that position and his past should completely disqualify him.

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            Or anyone [whose] brain has been eaten by a worm.

            I feel like that should be on a questionnaire somewhere. “Have you done these drugs?”, “Is there a worm controlling your brain now?”, “Can we talk to the worm?”, etc