“The Make America Healthy Again Commission created by executive order last week and chaired by new Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has drawn immediate rebukes from medical and advocacy groups as well as ADDitude community members outraged by its use of stigmatizing language and attack on stimulant medication use for ADHD.”
“The Trump administration’s recently established Make America Healthy Again Commission has come under fire from medical experts and patient advocacy groups for singling out autism spectrum disorder and ADHD, saying the “over-utilization of medication” for those and other conditions “pose a dire threat to the American people and our way of life.”
The commission, which will be chaired by the newly confirmed director of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a vocal anti-vaccine advocate, says it aims to end ADHD, autism, and other chronic health conditions with “fresh thinking on nutrition, physical activity, healthy lifestyles, over-reliance on medication and treatments, the effects of new technological habits, environmental impacts, and food and drug quality and safety.”