About half of U.S. adults say they’ve experienced loneliness, Dr. Vivek Murthy said in a report from his office.
in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic.Advertisement
The declaration is intended to raise awareness around loneliness but won’t unlock federal funding or programming devoted to combatting the issue. The loneliness epidemic is hitting young people, ages 15 to 24, especially hard. The age group reported a 70% drop in time spent with friends during the same period.
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