Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., generally referred to as RFK Jr., has come under fire ever since he admitted to consuming drugs, especially cocaine, in the past. In accordance, a particular nonprofit healthcare group has released a public statement highlighting the dangers of allowing him to head a federal agency, all the while calling for his resignation.
RFK Jr. faces backlash after his cocaine comment
On February 12, Protect Our Care, a nonprofit organization that works towards finding better and more affordable health care options, issued a comment following RFK Jr.’s revelation regarding his age-old drug addiction.
“With his statement today that ‘I’m not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats,’ Trump HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continues to lay bare why he is the most dangerous, in over his head, ill-suited person ever to lead such an important federal agency that has life-and-death power,” the group’s declaration read. Meanwhile, Brad Woodhouse, president of Protect Our Care, replied to RFK Jr.’s cocaine comment with a single word, stating, “Resign.”
The backlash against the current Health and Human Services Secretary comes following his recent appearance on comedian Theo Von’s podcast, This Past Weekend. At one point during the interview, RFK Jr. blatantly confessed that he “used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.”
In the past, he has openly talked about his struggles with substances. During his speech at the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit in Nashville in April 2025, the government official revealed that his first encounter with drugs occurred after the assassination of his father, former US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, in 1968.
RFK Jr. noted that it was his neighbors who introduced him to opioids, and he tried the hallucinogen LSD at a party. “They said, ‘Try this,’ and it was a line of crystal meth. I took it, and all my problems went away. My addiction came on full force. By the end of the summer, I was shooting heroin, which was my drug of choice the next 14 years,” RFK Jr. remarked.
