Trump HHS moves to curb 'overmedicalization' on antidepressants

Trump HHS moves to curb 'overmedicalization' on antidepressants

Senior Trump administration Health and Human Services officials are laying the groundwork to halt the rapid rise in recent years in prescriptions of antidepressants and other mental health medications as part of the Make America Healthy Again agenda. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced during an event at the MAHA Institute on Monday that his department would begin taking steps to curb what he described as the overmedicalization of ment…

RFK Jr. Announces New Plan to Tackle ‘Overmedicalization’ of Psychiatric Care - The Thinking Conservative News

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RFK Jr. Announces New Plan to Tackle ‘Overmedicalization’ of Psychiatric Care

The federal government is taking steps to tackle what it described as the overprescribing of antidepressants and other psychiatric drugs, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said at an event focused on “mental health and overmedicalization” in Washington on May 4. Kennedy noted that a significant percentage of Americans take drugs for mental health, including around 10 percent of children. “That’s not a marginal issue. This is a system-level …