Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting new initiatives to wean people off of antidepressants like Zoloft and Prozac. Psychiatrists are urging caution before changing any medication.

RFK Jr targets Zoloft and Prozac in latest MAHA push to kick America’s drug habit - ‘Today, we take clear and decisive action to confront our nation’s mental health crisis,’ Kennedy said

With Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. aiming to rein in the use of psychiatric drugs, psychiatrists are preemptively addressing how and when patients should quit taking them.

On May 4, 2026, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released an action plan aimed at addressing concerns about psychiatric overprescribing following the MAHA Institute's Mental Health and Overmedicalization Summit.

A subsidiary of Indian drugmaker Hetero Group mistakenly packaged two types of antidepressants in packs of sertraline, potentially posing risks to patients.

Senior Trump administration Health and Human Services officials are laying the groundwork to halt the rapid rise in recent years in prescriptions of antidepressants and other mental health medications as part of the Make America Healthy Again agenda.