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Salon
Salon
Science
Mike Males

What we get wrong on teen mental health

The rise in depression, anxiety and suicidal behaviors among adolescents has generated thousands of commentaries blaming social media while calls for restrictions on teens' online access many states and Congress are advancing.

However, leaders, authorities, and commentators on the issue uniformly ignore the Centers for Disease Control's 116-question, 7,800-subject Adolescent Behaviors and Experiences Survey that documented teen's "mental health crisis" in the first place.

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