NEW YORK, May 9 (Xinhua) -- Mental health disorders are surging among U.S. adolescents while the medical system failed to keep up, and options for inpatient and intensive outpatient psychiatric treatment eroded sharply, reported The New York Times on Sunday.
In 2019, 13 percent of adolescents reported having a major depressive episode, a 60 percent increase from 2007. Suicide rates, stable from 2000 to 2007, leaped nearly 60 percent by 2018, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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