U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implored U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen on Monday asked Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to preserve federal funding for an opioid overdose prevention program that distributes naloxone,

“RFK Jr. will focus on that at the expense of other things that are very, very, very, very much contributing to the ‘chronic disease epidemic,’” said Dr. Eric Burnett, an internal medicine doctor at an academic medical center in New York and a health communicator on social media.

U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen implores U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday.

The U.S. Secretary of Health's beliefs around opioid use and treatment contradict what I and other experts know to be effective.

Kennedy defers to the National Institutes of Health to 'lay out the pros and cons, risks and benefits, accurately as we understand them with

In 2023, for the first time, more than half of those who died while experiencing homelessness in Washington, D.C.,

Kennedy Jr. not to slash funding for naloxone in a letter the Colorado congresswoman sent Monday. The medication has proven extremely effective in stopping opioid overdoses, a leading cause of ...