Three mental-health claims from RFK’s wellness movement: what scientists say
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US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been critical of antidepressant drugs.Credit: Alex Wroblewski/AFP via Getty
Overdiagnosis, overmedication and withdrawal: that’s the bleak picture of US mental-health treatment painted at a Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) wellness summit attended by US health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr, the driving force behind the MAHA movement.
The summit, which was held on 4 May in Washington DC, focused on what the group argues is the widespread overuse of drugs to treat mental-health conditions. Some speakers described agonizing withdrawal symptoms when they tried to wean off antidepressants. Others attacked what they characterized as an overdiagnosis of mental-health disorders in children.
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