Mental Illness Treatment Varies Widely Among American Adolescents Within and Across ZIP Codes

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Using a national database of insurance claims, Princeton researchers investigated the type of treatment adolescents — most of whom were around the average age of 12 and suffering from anxiety or depression — receive after a first episode of mental illness. Professor Janet Curie, who co-authored the new study, discusses the findings with Stat. https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/21/mental-illness-treatment-varies-widely-among-american-adolescents-within-and-across