Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “It costs about $92 billion here in direct costs, 890 billion…”

“Talk to us about that. I mean, it's just, it's a raw financial issue. It can be reduced to a raw financial issue. It costs about $92 billion here in direct costs, 890 billion a year in indirect costs and lost productivity. and cost to our health care system and just collateral damage and all the collateral illnesses. One of the things Patrick and I were talking about backstage is the intensity of use by drug addicts and alcoholics of the health care system.” (00:50–01:00)

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