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China's age-standardized anxiety burden fell 1.2% a year after 2000, yet modeled Global Burden of Disease estimates project 22% more anxiety cases by 2040, with more of the burden in middle …
Read articleThe most-quoted figure on veteran suicide is “22 a day,” produced from 21-state death-certificate data for 1999–2010.2 The VA’s 2024 Annual Report — with mortality data through 2022 — puts t…
Read articleChildren with intellectual disability are 3–4x more likely to have a comorbid psychiatric disorder than peers without ID. A 2026 nationwide Korean study by Joo and colleagues tracks how thos…
Read articleThe Netherlands has practiced euthanasia for mental suffering since the early 2000s, and the procedure has expanded rapidly among young people. Between 2020 and 2024, euthanasia procedures f…
Read articleGlobal age-standardized substance-use-disorder rates fell 16.9% from 1990–2021. High-income North America rose 24%—the divergence US coverage misses.
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