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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We are the most overmedicated nation in the world and a lot…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 18:35

We had comparable levels in the 40s, 50s and 60s and people weren't doing that. Something changed dramatically change human behavior. And one of the culprits we need to examine is whether the fact that We are the most overmedicated nation in the world and a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have black box warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideation. So we are doing those studies right now for the first time and we will have an answer. Hold a second. He opened with that. He gets to go back to it. (18:35–18:49)

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Asserts that the U.S. is the most overmedicated nation, with many psychiatric drugs having warnings of suicidal and homicidal ideation.

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