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 mental health conditions and the over-prescription of psychotropic medications.
“Today, we take clear and decisive action to confront our nation’s mental health crisis by addressing the overuse of psychiatric medications—especially among children,” Kennedy said in a press release on the new agency actions.
The widespread use of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, such as Prozac and Zoloft, has been a target for reform of the MAHA movement and Kennedy in particular.
Kennedy has made several statements in the past blaming antidepressants and other psychotropic medications for violence. He discussed his views during his marathon week of budget hearings in Congress last month, saying that HHS is working on a study connecting antidepressants to school shootings.
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