NPR – Anya Kamenetz
“U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory this month saying the youth mental health crisis is getting worse. “The pandemic era’s unfathomable number of deaths, pervasive sense of fear, economic instability, and forced physical distancing from loved ones, friends, and communities have exacerbated the unprecedented stresses young people already faced,” Murthy wrote. But he also emphasized that mental health conditions are treatable and preventable.” (more)