TY - JOUR PY - 2024// TI - Unregulated social media as a toxin: New York City's public health action JO - Lancet psychiatry A1 - Counts, Nathaniel Z. A1 - Avula, Deepa A1 - Vasan, Ashwin SP - ePub EP - ePub VL - ePub IS - ePub N2 - In 1538, Swiss physician and philosopher Paracelsus put forth the toxicology maxim that the dose makes the poison. In public health, this concept guides efforts to protect the population from environmental exposures where they live, work, and play through regulation and control. Today, a new toxin has emerged in the digital environment: unfettered access to unsafe social media platforms, with concerning adverse effects on children's and adolescent's mental health...
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