Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic

Why So Many Teens are Struggling, and What We’re Missing


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The numbers are heartbreaking. Nearly 40% of high school students say they feel persistently sad or hopeless, according to the latest data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. About one in five reported struggling with anxiety or depression in just the past two weeks, and another one in five said they seriously considered suicide in the past year.

In this episode of Grieving Out Loud, we sit down with the researchers behind a powerful new book, Mind the Children, that digs into what’s fueling America’s youth mental health crisis. The authors—journalists, researchers, and clinicians—want parents and policymakers to understand the full picture. Too often, they say, the blame gets pinned on a single factor. But the truth is, there are many forces at work. 

  Today I'm joined by Naomi Schaefer Riley, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who studies child welfare and foster care, and Dr. Ken Winters, a senior scientist at the Oregon Research Institute in Minnesota, and consultant at the Center for Indigenous Behavioral Health at the University of Iowa.

Learn more about and purchase their book, Mind the Children, here.

If you liked this episode, check out the following next: 

  • Your To-Die List: Bestselling Author on Living Fully and Resiliently
  • A mother’s urgent message on mental health and addiction
  • Mental health expert offers advice after his own son battles depression, anxiety & addiction
  • Mother blames cannabis-induced psychosis for son’s death



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  • sons
  • mothers
  • fathers
  • friends
  • wives
  • husbands
  • cousins
  • boyfriends
  • girlfriends.

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