This Teen Was Prescribed 10 Psychiatric Drugs. She’s Not Alone. [nytimes.com.]
By Matt Richtel, Photo: Annie Flanagan/The New York Times, The New York Times, August 28, 2022 One morning in the fall of 2017, Renae Smith, a high school freshman on Long Island, N.Y., could not get out of bed, overwhelmed at the prospect of going to school. In the following days, her anxiety mounted into despair. “I should have been happy,” she later wrote. “But I cried, screamed and begged the universe or whatever godly power to take away the pain of a thousand men that was trapped inside...