Social media is driving teen mental health crisis, surgeon general warns↵
1.Advisory calls attention to growing concerns about the link between social media use and depression and anxiety in children and adolescents.↵
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, long a proponent of mental health awareness, has issued a warning that social media use is a main contributor to depression, anxiety and other problems in the nation's teenagers.↵
The report calls attention to growing concerns about the effects of social media use on children and adolescent's mental health.↵
The advisory urges policymakers and the companies that make the social media platforms to share with parents the burden of managing children's and adolescents' social media use.↵
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