RFK JR’s Maha report argued that children were “very drug”. He cited a study on adults

The latest report by the Make America Healthy Again (Maha) commission of the Trump Administration, led by the Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is, once again, riddled with errors, including the ignorance of an adult study used to affirm that American children are “very drug”.

The latest version of the report, updated on Friday, corrected some of the original errors. However, Notus reported that he had again distorted studies and distorted research to make uninbeated complaints, including medical children.

In a section entitled “American children are very drug – and that does not work”, psychotherapy of the Maha commission is more effective than drugs to deal with children’s mental health problems. To support the complaint, the report cited a study of the renowned psychologist Pim Cuijpers. However, Cuijpers told Notus that his research focused exclusively on psychiatric drugs in adults.

“Depression treatments in adolescents have very different efficiency from that of treatments in adults, so that they cannot be compared, and this reference is therefore not usable in adolescents,” said Cuijpers. “He also does not declare that the combination of therapy and antidepressants is greater than therapy or antidepressants.”

Cuijpers added that the assertion of the report according to which the “prescription rate of antidepressants in adolescents increased by 14 years between 1987 and 2014” was a “strange” affirmation.

“Modern antidepressants were developed in the late 1980s. It can also be said that these drugs were simply used for adolescents who could benefit from them,” Cuijpers in Notus.

Last week, the Trump administration defended the initial version of the 73 -page report, qualifying it as “transformer” realization, despite the fact that it cited several studies that do not exist.

For example, the report said that “American children are on too much medicine” and cited a study supposed to be written by the pediatric pulmonologist, Dr. Harold J. Farber. But Farber denied having written the report, noting that while he is carrying out similar research, his results have been distorted.

Originally published on Latin Times