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jennifer ramelmeier's avatar

I recommend incorporating homeopathy for the treatment of the mental illness that drives addiction. Many have been turned around with homeopathy. Perhaps contact NCH on how to do this.

Tee Rigodanzo's avatar

Totally agree . . . I used homeopathy following 2 car accidents (rear ended so not my fault) . . . plus multiple other events of daily life ~ https://ondamed.net/

Steven Linney's avatar

Thats awsome , i lost a brother and cousin 6 friends to addiction..

Smith's avatar

I've lost childhood friends and I have a friend who lost her only child. Addiction is horrible and when I think of all the drugs being brought into this country through our wide open borders and politicians more concerned about cheap labor and their new pet voters rather than citizens it boils my blood. I'll bet we'll find democrats have stole funding for the homeless and the addicted just like they have money meant for daycare, autism, and hospice. Absolutely evil.

Marc's avatar

Where is your evidence that Democrats have stolen funding for the homeless?

Smith's avatar

There is no way they are allowing billions to be stolen without getting their cut. Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent is getting the evidence for that.

Marc's avatar

It takes more evidence than your simplistic statement.

On the filthy MAGA side, we have a Fox reporter who said on air recently that homeless people should be shot. The next day, of course, an instant hypocritical. "apology" for this vile statement .

Republicans have always hated homeless people. They consider them lazy filthy parasites. Losers. Let them beg and then let them die!

Kelli's avatar

me too but many family and hundreds of friends ...

Tee Rigodanzo's avatar

Very sorry for your losses

Diana Maryland's avatar

More excellent news. Newsome drove California into the ground. Moore is doing the same now in Maryland.

E. Grogan's avatar

Sorry to hear that about Maryland. Looks like they're trying to do that in Virginia as well. It's horrifying. Prayers for Maryland and Virginia. I left California because of Gruesome. Lived there most of my 71 yrs.

Diana Maryland's avatar

Sorry to hear! He drove so many out. We're preparing to relocate from Maryland. I've lived here 53 yrs. My mother is 78 & she be coming too. It's atrocious what these governors have done.

Denise's avatar

Yes, Yes, Yes! Keep going RFK, and thank you Adam Garrie for reporting!

KP Stoller's avatar

Working with addicts for two decades, I came up with a very efficacious protocol to end almost every addiction, although, I have yet to try it on a porn addiction.

I created an online webinar about it at www.KennethStollerMD.com.

there is a free teaser webinar and the nitty gritty details are behind a paywall.

The thing is this protocol won't make those that control addiction medicine any money so you won't hear about it.

Jack Jackson's avatar

One good thing our government can do is allocate money for psychiatric counselors to get to the bottom of the pain that many addicts have. Most times they're self-medicating because of deeper issues.

Smith's avatar

If only we could trust psychiatrists. They've been driving the trans issue instead of treating mental illness. Not sure I trust them, anymore.

Jack Jackson's avatar

That's a very good point. We would need to approve all treatment to make sure they're all on the same page.

Linda's avatar

The problem is that all medical institutions, just about all doctors, are on the same page. But the page was written by big pharma, for maximum profit. Even doctors who want to do the right thing are unable to.

TeeJae's avatar

Not just trans issues. They're so beholden to Pharma, more often than not they'll reflexively prescribe SSRIs (with their nasty homicidal, suicidal, and other side effects) rather than do the real work of talk therapy, CBT, etc).

Marymargarette Geneviève Grace's avatar

Psychiatrists have #1 suicide in ALL PROFESSIONS.personne. Their children, and sposes have a 77% divorce rate.

Psychiatrists are paid by the globalists Rothschilds WEF BS HEALTH SABOTAGING SYSTEM.

HEATH-CARE, IS THE VERY LAST THING GLOBALISTS WANT FOR HUMANS WHO SUFFER. UP TO 68% OF ALL US CITIZENS WILL HAVE 1 BOUT OF DEPRESSION.

OUR FAKE FOOD SYSTEMS, NOW LOADED WITH TOXIC CHEMICALS TO MAKE US FAT.

LACK OF EXERCISE FOR ALL CHILDREN AND AWFUL SCHOOL LUNCHES PROPELLED BY THE DEMISE OF THE HUMAN BODY FROM ATTACKD ON THE HUMAN RACE BOTH PHYISICALLY AND MENTALLY FROM BIRTH.

IT'S TRYPAST TIM e to EIGHTY-SIX THE ROTHCHILD SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

Sonia Nordenson's avatar

Yes--I'd opt for psychotherapists rather than psychiatrists.

Jack Jackson's avatar

I had to Google the difference. I completely agree with you. Psychotherapy is what I had in mind. Never too late to learn! 😊

Sonia Nordenson's avatar

The distinction was easier for me--only because I was married to one.

Marc's avatar

Deeper issues: exactly. See my post further down here.

Fred Ichinose's avatar

What I appreciate most is that these efforts are not being developed or supported or promoted by people who think they figured out a reasonable solution, but these are people who have themselves struggled with these demons or watched their loved ones struggle or lost loved ones to addiction. People who have looked this evil in the eye and survived. I appreciate most of all RFK Jr taking this initiative. I pray God uses this effort to save many lives.

Lauren Ayers's avatar

Law abiding tax payers worry about crime and violence without noticing that such antisocial behavior has a nutritional basis. In other words, malnourished people have a much higher likelihood of harming others.

Sylvia Onusic's comprehensive article, "Violent Behavior – A Solution in Plain Sight," (Wise Traditions journal, April 2013) offers a panorama of hope for our mentally ill youth:

http://www.westonaprice.org/environmental-toxins/violent-behavior-a-solution-in-plain-sight

Onusic explains various nutrients essential for health and resilience:

● Fat-based vitamins: A, D, K2

● Water soluble vitamins: C, B1 (thiamine) B3 (niacin), B6 (pyridoxine), B12 (cobalamin), B9 (folate)

● Amino acids: tryptophan, leucine, isoleucine, and valine

● Minerals: magnesium, iron, iodine, zinc

● Choline

● Fatty Acids ARA and DHA

Then there are the toxins that contribute to mental instability:

● Copper

● All the heavy metals – aluminum, lead, mercury, cadmium, nickel, tin (and arsenic, which is metalloid)

● Food allergies and sensitivities (such as gluten, MSG, the artificial sweetener aspartame, artificial colors, flavors and preservatives

● Soy (which increases a person’s estrogen levels)

● Alcohol (obviously!)

● Sugar

● Environmental toxins like fire retardants, pesticides, Teflon, silicofluorides

This article also lists some very informative studies and books that criminologists could learn a lot from, such as Barbara Reed Stitt’s "Food and Behavior: A Natural Connection"

Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, learned about niacin (vitamin B3) from Dr. Abram Hoffer, a psychiatrist and proponent of megavitamin therapy (orthomolecular medicine). Wilson found that niacin alleviated his depression and anxiety and he wanted it to be included as an adjunct to the AA program. But AA’s governing board refused to distribute info about niacin, concerned that endorsement would be practicing medicine without a license.

Joan Mathews Larson, PhD, is the founder and executive director of the Health Recovery Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Her book "Seven Weeks to Sobriety: The Proven Program to Fight Alcoholism" is a bestseller, and some sources claim her program has a 70% success rate.

Eating nutrient-dense food every day, and avoiding the toxins so many of us are exposed to, builds health, which makes it easy to respect oneself (and easily avoid addictions), and to respect other people and resist the temptation to take "shortcuts" like lying, stealing, and murder. Psychiatrists and psychologists, sociologists, criminologists and the courts rarely examine these fundamentals of empathy and self control, essential for communities to have low crime.

TeeJae's avatar

Great point. As an owner of a microschool, I study children's behavior & psychology. The quality of the food they consume is a MAJOR contributor.

truth seeker's avatar

what exactly have you observed? Sugar kids are known to be problematic.

TeeJae's avatar

Exactly. And processed junk foods. They can't focus, are unproductive, easily distracted, disruptive, hyperactive, unmotivated, irritable, irresponsible. What's most frustrating is when we've suggested to the parents that their child's academic and behavioral issues are likely diet-related, they continue to send them in with unhealthy lunches, snacks, and drinks.

Truth Seeker's avatar

Have been acutely aware of this issue from the perspective of health for many decades with ALL of the details. Parents do not value nor comprehend the value of health. They were not ready or prepared to parent.

The renaissance can happen by observing others who choose wisely.

The role of the government is to govern by the will of the people.

The very fact that we must discuss healthy food demonstrates

a very serious flaw in thinking.

truth seeker's avatar

The 10 step program has no rival. Admission is the little detail that others leave out...

No way forward on any problem without admission.

One does not "fight"alcoholism, one chooses to stop the behavior.

truth seeker's avatar

of course all people need nutrients, both macro and micro

However you are giving a pass to choice as there are far more who also do not consume

those nutrients WHO DO NOT HAVE THE SAME MI.

Your last sentence about toxin avoidance and access to health foods has ALWAYS been true. The fact that clueless people chose to ignore this, is on them.

Crime has dozens of incentives and consequences, then and now. Lieing, stealing and murder and not "shortcuts" That is ridiculous.

Stephen Newell's avatar

Good there doing something. 100m is a drop in the bucket

Jeff Jones's avatar

Nice millions are going towards ending addiction!!

I'm curious whether there's room for a grassroots family approach in which the family initiates change first (within their body, within their relationships, and within their family, and within their home). Learn more about empowering the people who care the most. https://www.thefamilyrecoverysolution.com/rethinking-addiction-book/

Jeff Jones's avatar

When families change, individuals in addiction change. But it takes rethinking addiction, which can save lives. The book above is a simple overview. I'm doing a 6-week masterclass on it. Starts later this month.

Marc's avatar

I wish we gave more attention to saving the most sufferring among us, "the least of these" as Jesus put it. Yet we spend more money on perfecting smart phones, creating nuclear weapons, shopping away hours in malls in a materialistic frenzy, etc... Not that money can necessarily solve all things. But funding humanists, those with compassion, looking at various experimental social movements, and treatments, perhaps ultimately we can be of more help.

In the meantime, some desperate lonely person is shooting up in an alley all alone in the world. "Is this what it has come to !? " he or she cries out!

truth seeker's avatar

Howz about educating the clueless on the Cause of Health?

Simple and inexpensive.

truth seeker's avatar

Addiction is the false belief that destroying ones personal health is OK.

Instead of "treating" the DX howz about erasing the false belief?

Frank's avatar

Both my kids have addictions, one drugs the other alcohol, one has been in and out of jail for 10 years, lives on the streets and has had no treatment options, just released back to the streets after time served. Has 3 abandoned children, was a scholar and wants to reconnect. There is absolutely nothing that would assist her or us in this endeavor. We’ve raised one of her children with no help because of the overbearing, inept and corrupt foster system.

Marc's avatar

Sorry to hear this Frank. Just read a book called "Breaking Night: from Homeless to Harvard " by a woman named Liz Murray. She made it, but her mother was just too far gone: Schizophrenic, addicted to coke, and almost blind. Died of AIDS.

Both of her parents went through a welfare cheque in the first few days, and then the children went hungry or scrounged on their own. They went out to score every day. Their place was a mess.

This book haunted me for days. Heartbreaking.

Frank's avatar

Thank you Marc for your humanity. One addicted person affects hundreds. Fortunately my daughter knew her plight and gladly gave her Son to us when he was young enough to not remember. But he is affected.

Marc's avatar

I'm really sorry to hear all this.

I tell ya, the book I cite is heavy. The wasted lives. The sufferring. One person makes it though but it was tough. They made a film about it called : From Homeless to Harvard before the book. . The young actress who plays Liz Murray is insanely great. You can watch it online but you have to scrounge through a lot of links first . You can all probably relate to all this than I can. I have never been homeless and I have managed to have 3 meals a day. But I almost died from a rare physical ailment and so I know despair.

Plot of the Movie

Liz Murray is one of two daughters of an extremely dysfunctional Bronx family. Her father watches Jeopardy! and knows all the questions. Their bathtub does not drain, so she has to shower while standing on an overturned bucket, to stay out of the fetid water.

As a young girl, Murray lives with her sister Lisa, their drug-addicted, schizophrenic mother Jean, who has AIDS and is practically blind, and their father Peter Finnerty, also a drug addict who is intelligent, but also has AIDS, lacks social skills, and is not conscientious. She is removed from the home and placed into the care system as her father cannot take care of her.

At 15, Liz moves in with Jean, Lisa, and her grandfather Pops, who sexually abused Jean and Liz's aunt. After Pops hits her during a fight, Liz runs away with a girl from school named Chris who is being abused at home.

After Jean dies of AIDS, which she contracted from sharing needles during her drug-abusing years, Liz gets a "slap in the face" by her mother's death and begins her work to finish high school, which she amazingly completed in two years, rather than the usual four. She becomes a star student and earns a scholarship to Harvard University through an essay contest sponsored by The New York Times.

Frank's avatar

Sounds fascinating. Too bad that real life drama is next door and all around us. I thank the President for recognizing this affliction.

Marc's avatar

The film is totally based on real life drama. It is not fiction if your above statement implies that.

truth seeker's avatar

terrible, what do you consider the cause??

Frank's avatar

Given Vicodin for back pain in early teens, and then harvesting them from every friends, family, acquaintances bathroom medicine cabinets. If you recall, they were prescribed like candy by every doctor and dentist because the industry lobbied to have pain considered a medical condition with no questions asked. Thanks for your concern.

truth seeker's avatar

Definitely recall. The drugs have changed the behavior not so much even among well educated professionals. Have helped thousands with back pain, much to unpack there. The worst place to go for help is a Medical Doctor.

The dental cartel, drill and fill, is another racket.

Frank's avatar

Yes, I have clients that have taken opiate based RX for decades because of chronic back pain. But, to give it to a 13 year old with no observable spinal trauma, is unconscionable. There is no way that happens today. My friends first wife had her first cocktail in her late 20’s and never set it down for 26 years with all the intervention imaginable, and perished. All takes is once for many,

truth seeker's avatar

Not going to out myself but have assisted thousands out of the chronic BP tunnel. Not difficult. Many components, simple solutions.

Daniel Murphy's avatar

I look forward to hearing about the progress made from this initiative. Knowing that so many people suffer from addiction and homelessness and reside on the fringes brings anxiety to my consciousness. I give to various organizations through my church, but the issues not only remain fixed ‘they expand.’ By action such as this, Secretary Kennedy is speaking to American society as a whole with the humane message ‘everyone matters.’ After decades of political malaise we FINALLY have a leader with integrity and moral courage in Washington looking out for all Americans. Let’s not take him for granted. For as we know - he is a rare gift.

Christina Veselak's avatar

So good to hear about the commitment to reducing addiction and homelessness. What I did not see in the article was any mentioned about how eating real food, a Hallmark of the MAHA initiative, impacts mental health and addiction. For those of you interested, please check out my book at www.Aoife recovery.com. I have found in my 40 years of work in the addiction field that missing a meal is probably the number one Relapse trigger for all addiction. Research shows that 95% of people in the abstinence are medically diagnosable with reactive hyperglycemia. This needs to be researched further.

Christina Veselak's avatar

I pushed the send button by mistake. The website is www.eatforrecovery.com.