In line with his rhetoric claiming there could be a link between vaccines and other medications and autism, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has turned his attention to another class of drugs he believes could be linked to acts of mass violence. Kennedy has recently reiterated his intention to study antidepressant medications, such as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs.

Why is Kennedy scrutinizing antidepressants?

In November, Kennedy said that he would direct the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study the “long-taboo question of whether SSRIs and other psychoactive drugs contribute to mass violence,” in a post on X . It was not the first time he insinuated a connection between antidepressants and violence. In late August, f

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