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,

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on May 14 before the House Appropriations and the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions committees.

“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.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implores 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.

In back-to-back Capitol Hill hearings, Kennedy touched on abortion access, vaccines, measles, research, mental health and opioids.

Amid the HHS cuts, the budget request includes a $500 million boost for Kennedy's "Make America Healthy Again" initiative.

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

Kennedy defers to the National Institutes of Health to 'lay out the pros and cons, risks and benefits, accurately as we understand them with

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implores 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.