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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The highest cause of death, overdose, is in Americans under…”

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

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But also people, when they're disconnected, turn to drugs. They look for something outside of them to fill that lonely hole inside of them. And so you're seeing record numbers of addictions. Now The highest cause of death, overdose, is in Americans under 45 years old. And we can't fix that by treating the addiction alone. You have to treat. The causes of it. We have to work on prevention, we have to intervene early. (03:45–03:53)

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