Messenger - In his annual State of the City address on Wednesday, New York City Mayor Eric Adams proclaimed it's time to hold social media platforms accountable for their role in the growing youth mental health crisis. “Just as the surgeon general did with tobacco and guns, we are treating social media like other public health hazards,” Adams said. “That's why today, Dr. Ashwin Vasan is issuing a Health Commissioner Advisory, officially designating social media as a public health crisis hazard in New York City.”...
The same day, Ashwin Vasan, M.D., commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, issued an advisory highlighting the deterioration of youth mental health that coincides with the increase in social media use. According to that advisory, rates of hopelessness among high schoolers in New York City have increased by 42% since 2011 — one of the early years of the social media era. Likewise, suicidal ideation has also risen by more than 34% among the group over that same time period.
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