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Mike Males

Mike Males is a senior researcher at the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice in San Francisco.

Teenage girls lying on bed looking at smart phones (Getty Images/The Good Brigade)

Social media is a lifeline for mental health, not a curse, according to CDC’s own data

Mike Males

A 13-year-old girl is using her smartphone in the dark room (Getty Images)

We’ve gotten the “teenage mental health crisis” dangerously wrong

Mike Males