Mental health has been ‘a second pandemic’ during a year of COVID-19, Utah doctors say

Reports of substance abuse, anxiety and depression have increased in the last year, say doctors at Huntsman Mental Health Institute.

(Photo courtesy of University of Utah Health) Dr. Mark Rapaport, CEO of the Huntsman Mental Health Institute and chair of the University of Utah's department of psychiatry, speaking Thursday, March 11, 2021, about the mental health challenges that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought.

Mental health has been ‘a second pandemic’ during a year of COVID-19, Utah doctors say

Reports of substance abuse, anxiety and depression have increased in the last year, say doctors at Huntsman Mental Health Institute.

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