Social media posts claimed the health secretary backed a White House plan to end a program that distributes the opioid overdose reversal medication.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen on Monday asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to preserve federal funding for an opioid overdose prevention program that distributes naloxone,

“RFK Jr. will focus on that at the expense of other things that are very, very, very, very much contributing to the ‘chronic disease epidemic,’” said Dr. Eric Burnett, an internal medicine doctor at an academic medical center in New York and a health communicator on social media.

Kennedy Jr. is backing ... of a godsend as far as opioid epidemics are concerned, and we certainly are in the middle of one now with fentanyl," Donald McNamara of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said. "We need this funding source because ...

The U.S. Secretary of Health's beliefs around opioid use and treatment contradict what I and other experts know to be effective.

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Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday. The medication has proven extremely effective in stopping opioid overdoses, a leading cause of ...

The health secretary faced intense questioning over cuts to his agency, vaccines and more.