Kristen Rogers

(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications when needed.

(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications when needed.

(CNN) — US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a plan to reduce “overprescribing” of psychiatric medications and support alternative treatment options and discontinuation of medications

Psychiatric medications, especially antidepressants, have been one of the targets of Kennedy's “Make America Healthy Again” movement since he took office last year. The secretary has claimed that the drugs are overused and that they may be linked with violence and mass shootings, with serious risks to developing fetuses when women take them during pregnancy, with withdrawal worse than that from heroin, and with harms to children. Although some slight risks of harms have been found in some of these situations, these medications have been deemed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as generally safe and effective for mental health disorders including depression, anxiety, eating disorders, substance use disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Phthalates — the synthetic chemicals used in everyday products for food packaging, personal care, toys and more — have been linked to abnormal neurological development in infants.

(CNN) — Concerns about whether antidepressants cause harms to developing fetuses, including neurodevelopmental disorders, have grown in recent years.

Antidepressant use before and during pregnancy has little to no association with higher odds of ADHD or autism in children, a new study has found.

(CNN) — Concerns about whether antidepressants cause harms to developing fetuses, including neurodevelopmental disorders, have grown in recent years.

(CNN) — Nearly 1.2 billion people worldwide had mental disorders in 2023, reflecting a 95.5% increase since 1990 a new study has found.