MAHA Is Helping To Run U.S. Mental Health Policy
U.S. Health and Human Service Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has an antidepressant agenda; Laura Delano's Inner Compass Initiative takes center stage in federal mental health policy.
Earlier this month, the MAHA Institute held a “Mental Health & Overmedicalization Summit” with sessions on the “overmedicalization of childhood” and “informed choice and building off ramps” for psychiatric drugs—all the kind of topics you’d expect from a full-day of policy discussions.
But it would be wrong to mistake it as a run-of-the-mill think tank summit. Given the participants and the range of subjects, this was an unprecedented demonstration of the depth to which the MAHA ideology has become integrated into the federal health administrative state. All the major government agencies responsible for key areas of mental health care were represented. The patron saint of MAHA himself, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., announced new intiatives intended to help support “informed consent” and tapering of popular antidepressants like Lexapro and Prozac.
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