Doctors warn they are now seeing suicidal EIGHT-YEAR-OLDS

Lois Lee, a pediatric emergency physician at Boston Children’s Hospital who chairs the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Injury, Violence and Poison Prevention, told The Wall Street Journal: 'We are seeing younger and younger patients coming in with mental-health crises, and even those 8 to 10 years old coming in with suicidal ideation.'

Opioid abuse, exacerbated by the fentanyl crisis, has surged and overdose rates for children aged 10 to 19 years began increasing just before the pandemic.

'Although the pandemic did not initiate these trends, it may have poured fuel on the fire,' Woolf argues.

Injury mortality at ages 10 to 19 years rose by 23 percent between 2019 and 2020.

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