Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “100,000 children a year until recently, now it's about…”

“If it touches these people, it can hurt every American. And President Trump is often talked about with compassion about the families who lose children to this disease. 100,000 children a year until recently, now it's about 76,000 [are lost to addiction]. Those families are devastated forever. And the cost of it to our country, not only in dollars, but in just the malaise and the despair that it imposes is incalculable.” (07:28–07:33)

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