Robert F. Kennedy Jr. once claimed that using narcotics made him do better in school. In the midst of his presidential campaign, the independent candidate discussed his history of drug use and addiction during a July appearance on the “Shawn Ryan Show” podcast.

Kennedy, President-elect Donald Trump's health secretary pick, claimed during a podcast interview that heroin helped his studies.

"I did very, very poorly in school until I started doing narcotics," Trump's health secretary nominee said in a resurfaced interview about his former substance abuse