RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back [View all]
Source: The Hill
RFK Jr. targets childhood psychiatric drugs; doctors push back
by Joseph Choi - 02/26/25 6:00 AM ET
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has made psychiatric medications a focus of his review of the country’s childhood chronic disease crisis, claiming the drugs have been “insufficiently scrutinized” and are addictive.
Childhood psychiatrists insist the drugs, for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression, are nonaddictive and proven safe and say they are more concerned about young Americans unable to access psychiatric medications that could help.
Kennedy emphasized his skepticism of these medications during his Senate confirmation hearings.
“Fifteen percent of American youth are now on Adderall or some other ADHD medication. Even higher percentages are on SSRIs and benzos. We are not just overmedicating our children, we are overmedicating our entire population,” Kennedy told the Senate Finance Committee.
The exact rate at which American youths are using ADHD medications is hard to ascertain. ...
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Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5164123-robert-kennedy-jr-psychiatric-drugs-children/
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