record. Kennedy is a vocal advocate of more mental health resources and services after his own public problems with bipolar disorder and“He’s helping take it to the insurance companies by enforcing the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, which I was honored to author, along with my late father, when we were in Congress,” Kennedy told CNN. “Frankly, he’s also put the most money to community mental health around the country.
“If you care about this addiction crisis and this mental health crisis, Joe Biden is your candidate,” he said, before alluding to Biden’s son. “He knows this issue, as you know. It’s personally affected him. And I think that every American can relate to what it’s like for Joe Biden, because we have all had similar circumstances.”weekend, honoring those who died to protect democracy, including my uncle Joe Kennedy, died at 28 over Germany trying to take out‘s buzz bombs,” he added.
Kennedy became the first Generation X member of Congress when he was elected to represent Rhode Island’s 1st Congressional District in 1994. He checked into a drug rehabilitation center twice during his tenure, including in 2006 after he crashed his car into a barricade on Capitol Hill.
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