In an op-ed for The Michigan Daily, the University of Michigan’s student-run newspaper, one student criticizes the increased rate at which psychiatric medications are prescribed to college students struggling with their mental health. The opinion piece argues that these medications may be over-prescribed and that “consulting other treatment methods first, such as the various types of therapy, can allow an individual to discover the potential root causes of their struggles.”
In the University of Houston’s (UH) student newspaper The Daily Cougar, one student writes that university leaders are “failing when it comes to students’ mental health,” following two student suicides in the spring semester. The student argues that UH’s mental health and wellbeing initiatives—which include installing balcony screens in Agnes Arnold Hall, the open-concept building from which two students jumped to their deaths last spring—have been preventative rather than proactive, and that the university lacks “a comprehensive mental health support system.”