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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The handling of addiction by the federal agencies is really…”

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

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RFK Jr: The U.S. addiction treatment system is broken

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I mean, the place where it's going right now, addiction treatment, The handling of addiction by the federal agencies is really a fee for service. When you hit the private sector, it's fee for service. So you have, you know, the addict is arrested on the street, so you have law enforcement. (00:00–00:18)

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Asserts that federal addiction treatment operates on a fee-for-service model.

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