In July, he publicly referred to people on SSRI’s and ADHD medications as “addicts.”

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    24 hours ago

    It’s about the hypocrisy. He’s had real addiction issues and considers blind-tested medicine to be the same. I don’t think anyone that has had a heroin addiction should ever be the top government healthcare voice, no matter their personal recovery. You need to earn that position and his past should completely disqualify him.

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        23 hours ago

        Or anyone [whose] brain has been eaten by a worm.

        I feel like that should be on a questionnaire somewhere. “Have you done these drugs?”, “Is there a worm controlling your brain now?”, “Can we talk to the worm?”, etc