Best Of The 2024 OPEN MINDS Children’s Services Executive Summit

America is trying to address what is happening to its children. Just this month, Vivek Murthy, M.D., the U.S. Surgeon General, recommended treating children’s use of social media apps as a public health problem akin to cigarettes and alcohol (see Surgeon General: Why I’m Calling For A Warning Label On Social Media Platforms).;Dr. Murthy described the mental health crisis among young people as an emergency exacerbated by social media. He cited recent research that adolescents who spend more than 3 hours per day on social media may be at heightened risk for mental health . . .