Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they've experienced...
Loneliness in the United States is a public health epidemic that posesserious health risks, says U.S. surgeon general Dr. Vivek Murthy. In an 81-page report, he stated that widespread loneliness is as deadly assmokingup to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars ...
2024 The surgeon general declared loneliness a nationwide epidemic last year. Tara Ellison, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024 That hasn’t stopped Congress, state legislatures, and the U.S. surgeon general from moving ahead with age bans and warning labels for YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram. ...
8, 2022, on youth mental health care. Widespread loneliness in the U.S. is posing health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About...
including loneliness and social media use. In an opinion piece in the New York Times this month, he said social media has contributed to a mental health crisis among the country’s young people and asked Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms similar to th...
Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. ...
The U.S. surgeon general warned Wednesday that parenting can be harmful to mental health. Dr. Vivek Murthy said in an advisory that while he feels blessed to be a father, being a parent has been the “toughest and most rewarding” job he has ever had. “The stresses parents and care...
“(Loneliness) is like hunger or thirst. It's a feeling the body sends us when something we need for survival is missing," the U.S. surgeon general said.
“And I have a theory as to why,” he said, “which is that doctors are actually seeing loneliness and mental health challenges on the front lines themselves in exam rooms, in hospitals each and every day.” After his term ends in March, Murthy doesn’...
Credit it to the rise of technology, political polarization or even the pandemic, but loneliness is on the rise. It's an epidemic with consequences so severe that Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy warns they could be deadly. "We now know that loneliness is a common feeling that many people...