As the COVID-19 pandemic hit one of its most dangerous peaks in 2021, nearly half of young people in the U.S. had a substance use or mental health disorder, a federal survey found.
A psychiatry expert says that easier access to illicit drugs and the government’s mishandling of “black box” labeling for psychiatric prescriptions were major contributing factors to the crisis.
“We are going through a social experiment with marijuana with no guardrails,” Khan said. “There are four times as many people smoking or taking marijuana. So it's the children who are suffering, adolescents especially. In some instances, marijuana is easier to access than tobacco for teenagers now. There are a lot of websites that parents don't know about that advocate all kinds of drug use.
“Socialization affected all these children, anywhere from ages 3 and up,” Khan told Yahoo News. “I would say socialization has become much more difficult for them to form relationships. Certainly for adolescents, a sense of belonging is a big issue for them. So that's gonna be some of the things to watch out for. But it's hard to say how different communities and how different regions will handle it.
“The diagnosis of psychiatric disorders has become very contentious,” Khan said. “It's mostly because the FDA put a label on antidepressants and similar medications on use in children, which is significantly prohibited. The suicide rates have doubled in the last 20 years or so, 18 years since the FDA put the label on medications.
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