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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

Mad in America

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being (2022)

Kids Mental Health Info

Key findings from the most recent America’s Children in Brief report: Teen Substance Use In OctoberDecember 2020, about 46% of adolescents ages 1217 who used illicit drugs in the past year perceived that they were using those substances “a little less or much less” than they did before the COVID-19 pandemic began.