2020 devastated US mental health — healing must be a priority
© Getty Images It should have been obvious that a once-in-a century outlier event — shattering economies, throwing millions onto the unemployment rolls, shuttering schools, forcing isolation — combined with an outpouring of fury over racial injustice — would precipitate a tsunami of anguish, depression, anxiety and addiction. The result: a pandemic of despair of historic proportions rolled into a broader public health crisis. The crisis is now of such magnitude that a failure by legislators and policy makers to shore-up an overwhelmed mental health care system could cripple recovery...
Source: thehill.com
