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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “That heroin was then stolen from the evidence locker room in…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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'I Spent 14 Years A Heroin Addict': RFK Jr. Discusses His Struggle With Addiction At Opioid Event

Published | Video Starts at 01:22

Heroin recovery happened all together. They got out of one automobile, 200 pounds of heroin, pure heroin. And they ended up getting, I think, about 1600 pounds over time. That heroin was then stolen from the evidence locker room in the Manhattan DA's office, and it was distributed on the streets of New York. And for several years, there was $2 heroin. So it was available in Deuces, and it was. There were people on every corner in Harlem, every corner in the Lower east side were selling $2 heroin. (01:22–01:35)

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