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Although President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has been examined for his views on vaccines, agriculture, abortion and more, his perspective on the treatment of one of the crises The most important health of the country has received much less attention.
Before joining Trump’s team, Kennedy campaigned to be president with a plan treat addiction Through the creation of “well -being farms” funded with the tax revenue of legalized marijuana sale at the federal level. “I will create these well -being farms where illegal drugs, opioids, but also legal drugs,” Kennedy said in a virtual event during his campaign, listed as a “Latin City Council”.
Kennedy himself fought with addiction when he was younger, including cocaine and heroin, which he has spoken publicly. He has announced his faith and commitment to the 12 -step alcohol’s program Anonymous as his saving grace. Kennedy is also a firm defender of clean life and said that the well -being farms for the treatment of addiction Imagine would also try to leave antidepressants or other medicines such as those for attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity (ADHD).
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Kensington’s drug addicts, Philadelphia, occupy a street corner. (Meg Myers/Fox News Digital)
Well -being farms are not a totally new idea. They are based on a framework known as a model of “therapeutic community”, which largely depends on peer support and behavioral solutions for addiction, compared to drug -based treatment strategies such as methadone or methadone therapy. buprenorphine, which work to be eliminated. The intense desires of opioids, to which addicts often attribute relapses. Many members of the medical community, including researchers at national health institutes, consider this medicine -assisted treatment to be the gold standard in addiction treatment.
AA also warns of the use of medicines such as buprenorphine to treat addiction.
Kennedy visited two places that align with this framework for a documentary that created on the addiction crisis while running for the presidency, entitled “Recovering America – at Film About Healing Our Addiction Crisis”. His addiction treatment framework, such as Kennedy’s welfare farms, includes an approach to peer recovery by teaching addicts and teaching them how to live in society without drugs. Kennedy has said that on their rehabilitation farms, addicts would cultivate organic crops, Receive training in commercial skills and learn other ways of living in society without consuming illicit drugs.
A poster that warns of the dangers of Canada’s opioid addiction that promotes medically assisted treatment.
One of the programs that Kennedy visited in his documentary on the treatment of addiction was also a farm, where men learn to take care of livestock, operate tractors and repair barn. Its days also consist of meditation, meetings of 12 steps and yoga, but addicts must go outside the place to receive therapy and are not allowed to take any drugs, such as antidepressants or buprenorphin.
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The program, called Simise Farms, is located in the rural area of Texas. Simple promise does not have staff Authorized Therapists or Medical Providers At the site, according to The New York Times, who spoke with the program founder, Brandon Guinn.
Guinn told The New York Times What are these peer conversations where “the important job is being done … not with your therapist or your sponsor or your mentor, but from the shared experience of people who are struggling with addiction” .
The twelve steps come from the peer -to -peer addiction support group now known as anonymous alcoholics, which was founded in the 1930’s by a New York Stock Exchange Corridor called Bill W. and a surgeon in the area of the area Ohio, Dr. Bob S. (Photo of John van Hasselt/Corbis Via Getty Images)
Keith Humphreys, a drug policy psychologist and expert at Stanford University, said that although there is nothing wrong with “therapeutic community” models, he questioned the exclusion of evidence -based treatments that It has been shown to help people eliminate harmful and addictive drugs such as heroin.
“Given what is known, more than what is described is almost as (one) kind of 18th -century retirement. Given how much you have learned about the nature of the disease, about the things you can do With psychotherapy, the things you can do with medicine, why would you not want it?
“It’s not that you don’t benefit anyone,” added Humphries. He said that the complex nature of addiction is difficult to address without the advances of modern treatment and suggested that the inhabitants of the city may not have the desire or resources to move to far farms to receive treatment.
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Humphries said that programs reject patients who take antidepressants or other medicines are really quite common in the USA. Pointed to a program that the federal government Created in the 1930’s in Lexington, Kentucky, who followed this model, but also said that his success rates were low.
“George Vaillant conducted a 400 consecutive admissions study (in the Lexington program) and 400 of them fell later,” said Humphries. “So of course we know much more than we knew then. Then why not take advantage of it?”
Miami, Florida, Biscayne Boulevard, Vita Recovery, Luxury Treatment Center for Addiction Therapy. (Photo of: Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Image Group through Getty Images)
Humphries also proposed that the Kennedy Plan to finance the program through the revenue of legal marijuana would be such a bureaucratic obstacle that it would be a difficult and long process to launch these programs. “There are like 500 practical steps and barriers among all this, which I do not think this will happen,” said Humphries.
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Fox News Digital contacted Kennedy’s representatives for comments, in particular his opinion on medically assisted treatment therapies, but did not receive a response at the time of the press.
