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RFK Jr. Announces Plan To Target Psychiatric Medication “Overprescribing”

SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesHealth and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has announced a new HHS initiative intended to “curb psychiatric overprescribing” by promoting “appropriate prescribing” and encouraging doctors to wean their patients off of meds when possible. Kennedy alluded to his intentions to reduce the number of Americans taking psychiatric medications early in his tenure as HHS secretary, but this initiative marks his first step forward in doing so. Millions of Americans — somewhere between 16% and 20% of the population — take one or more psychiatric medications.“Today,...