RFK Jr. plans to curb antidepressants, which he falsely compares to heroin

In a brief appearance at a Make America Healthy Again Institute event Monday, anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced new federal initiatives to curb prescribing of antidepressants, which he has long attacked with false and dangerous claims. Mental health experts have previously condemned his rhetoric and are already pushing back on his new efforts.

The MAHA event was focused on "overmedicalization," with participants broadly alleging—without evidence—that too many Americans...