As More Americans Embrace Anxiety Treatment, MAHA Derides Medications By Phillip Reese February 23, 2026

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/anxiety-medications-ssris-prozac-zoloft-lexapro-maha-kennedy-rfk-jr/ KFF Health News: As More Americans Embrace Anxiety Treatment, MAHA Derides Medications After a grueling year of chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation to treat breast cancer, Sadia Zapp was anxious — not the manageable hum that had long been part of her life, but something deeper, more distracting. “Every little ache, like my knee hurts,” she said, made her worry that “this is the end of the road for me.” So Zapp, a 40-year-old communications director in New York, became one of millions of Americans to start taking an anxiety medication in recent years. For her, it was the serotonin-boosting drug Lexapro. (Reese, 2/23)