[News] After Fifteen Years of Decline, a Federal Survey Says American Teenagers Are Improving

Every measured mental-health indicator for American adolescents fell between 2021 and 2025 and substance use kept dropping, but the improvement is measured from a pandemic trough, does not extend to anxiety or self-harm, and nobody can yet say what caused it.

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