While President Donald Trump's candidate for health and humanitarian services, Robert F. Kennedy Junior, was scrutinized because of his views on vaccines, agriculture, abortion, etc., his view on treating one of the most important health crises in the country has received much less attention.
Before joining the Trump team, Kennedy made an electoral campaign for the presidency based on a plan to achieve this Addiction By creating “healthy farms” funded from tax revenue from the sales of the codified marijuana federal. Kennedy said in a virtual event during his campaign, described as “Latin City Hall”: “I will create these health farms where they can go and get rid of illegal drugs and opiates, but also legitimate drugs.”
Kennedy himself was suffering from addiction when he was younger, including cocaine and heroin addiction, which he spoke publicly. He announced his belief and commitment to the 12 -step program for unknown alcohol addicts as a blessing of his rescue. Kennedy is also a strong supporter of a clean life, and he said that the healthy farms of addiction that he imagines will also treat people trying to get rid of antidepressants, or other drugs such as ADHD deficiency disorder (ADHD).
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Kinsington drug addicts, Philadelphia, occupy the corner of a street. (Meg Maig / Fox News Digital)
Health farms are not a completely new idea. It is based on a frame known as the “therapeutic community” model, which relies heavily on peer support for the peer and behavioral solutions of addiction, compared to drug -based treatment strategies such as methadone or poprinorine therapy, which works to get rid of addiction. The intense desire to use opioid materials, which addicts often attribute the setbacks. Many in the medical community, including researchers in the National Institutes of Health, consider this drug -backed treatment is the golden standard in addiction treatment.
AA also warns against using medications such as poprinorphine to treat addiction.
In fact, Kennedy visited two places in line with this framework for a documentary film that he created on the addiction crisis while running for the presidency, entitled “The Restore of America – a movie about the healing of our addiction crisis.” The addiction treatment framework, such as Kennedy's healthy farms, includes focusing on recovery from analogy by giving addicts jobs and re -teaching them how to live in society without drugs. Kennedy said that addicts will do this on his rehabilitation farms Cultivation of organic crops, Receive training in commercial skills, and learn other ways to live in society without illegal drug use.
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One of the programs that Kennedy visited in his documentary on addiction treatment was also a farm, where men learn how to care for livestock, run tractors and repair barns. Their days also consist of meditation and 12 -step meetings and yoga, but addicts must get out of the site to receive treatment and are not allowed to take any medications, such as antidepressants or poprinorphins.
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The program, called Simple Promise Farms, is located in the Texas countryside. The simple promise does not work Certified therapists or medical service providers On the site, according to the New York Times, which spoke with the founder of the program, Brandon Jin.
Jin said to New York Times That these conversations between peers are the place where the important work is done … not with your processor, sponsor or teacher, but through the joint experience of people with addiction. “
The twelve steps of the Global Addiction Support Group have now arose from analogy to analogy known as anonymous wine addicts, which were founded in the 1930s by the Stock Exchange in New York called Bill W. and the surgeon of Ohio, Dr. Bob S. (Photo by John Van Hasilt/Corbis via Getti Imaguz)
Keith Humphrez, a psychologist and drug policy expert at Stanford University, said that although there is no error in the models of “therapeutic community”, he questioned the exclusion of treatments based on evidence that has been proven to help people get rid of harmful and addiction drugs such as heroin .
“Given the amount of what is known, more than it is described almost similar Why don't you have it?
“This does not mean that this will not benefit anyone,” Humphrez added. He pointed out that the complex nature of addiction is difficult to treat without the developments of modern treatment, and pointed out that city residents may lack the desire or resources necessary to move to far farms to receive treatment.
Humphrez said the programs that reject patients who take antidepressants or other drugs are very common in the United States. He referred to a program Federal government It was created in the 1930s in Lexington, Kentucky, which followed this model, but also indicated that its success rates were low.
Humphrez pointed out that “George Villant conducted a study on 400 consecutive acceptance cases (on the Lexington Program), and 400 of them were later.” “So, of course, we know much more than we knew at that time. Why don't we benefit from it?”
Miami, Florida, Peskin Bolivard, Vita Ricofry, Luxury Treatment Center for Addiction Treatment. (Photography: Geoffrey Greenberg / Global Photo Group via Getty Images)
Humphrez also assumed that Kennedy's plan to finance the program through the legal marijuana revenues will be a bureaucratic obstacle that the launch of these programs will be a difficult and long process. “There are approximately 500 practical and obstacles between all of this, and I don't think this will happen,” Humphrez said.
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Fox News Digital has communicated with Kennedy's representatives for comment, especially with regard to his view of medical therapeutic therapeutic treatments, but she did not receive a response until the time of publishing the article.
