Comments by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., US Health and Human Services secretary, sparked talk about whether antidepressants are as ...

Childhood psychiatrists insist the drugs, for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and depression, are ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order last week for a team to study the use of antidepressants in children.

President Donald Trump and HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said they will be studying the "threat" to children posed by ...

We must reform our mental health care delivery system, which is inadequate. It is overly reliant on pharmaceutical "remedies" ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. sits atop the very health system he spent years attacking, and now he faces his first big challenge: a ...

Last fall, before being named the senior U.S. health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the Trump administration would ...

The creation of a “Make America Healthy Again Commission” has raised concerns over Washington youths' access to medications ...

13, 2025, in Washington. AP During RFK Jr.'s confirmation hearing, he suggested that antidepressants could be more addictive than heroin. "I know people, including members of my family ...

More than 1 in 10 people in the United States takes an antidepressant, and SSRIs are the most commonly prescribed type of ...

Kennedy Jr.’s Senate confirmation hearing for secretary ... who’ve had a much worse time getting off of SSRIs than they have getting off of heroin,” Kennedy responded. While many of Kennedy ...