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From: Don Green5/21/2020 11:06:33 AM
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Nation’s Top Mental-Health Official Warns Against a Second Coronavirus Lockdown Comments highlight growing concern over the toll the shutdown is taking on mental health
A second coronavirus lockdown could pose grave risks to the nation’s mental health, the country’s leading mental-health official said.

The increase in the number of suicides, fatal drug overdoses and instances of domestic abuse will be broad, deep and long-lasting, said Elinore McCance-Katz, the assistant secretary for mental health and substance use, who was nominated for the position in 2017 by President Trump.

“I would very much hope that we would not do this again. I don’t see the science to back that up,” she said of a shutdown. “We need to discuss the risks versus the benefits to taking any action, and I would say that we wouldn’t want to take the same approach again.”

Dr. McCance-Katz’s comments highlight the growing concern over the rising toll the shutdown is taking on the mental health of millions of Americans as well as the debate over how that should inform future response. Spikes in calls to crisis lines and predictions of tens of thousands of suicides and drug overdoses are raising alarms and have prompted lawmakers to call for more money for mental-health screening and response.

wsj.com
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