Judith Warner, Washington Post Magazine contributor and author of her book “We’ve Got Issues: Children and Parents in the Age of Medication.”, joined WMAL's "O'Connor and Company" radio program about the mental health crisis among kids. Schools Increase Student Mental Health Treatment https://www.foxnews.com/us/schools-increase-student-mental-health-treatment-covid Judith Warner's piece in The Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2022/03/21/childrens-mental-health-crisis-politicization/ Washington Post Magazine contributor Judith Warner argues that the children's mental health crisis started long before the pandemic, so people need to stop seeing it as the result of covid restrictions and school closings. Through interviews and visits with frontline experts, Warner tears apart what’s truly been new in the covid era from the bigger and deeper problems that have been present all along.

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