The latest report from the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is, once again, riddled with errors, including the miscitation of an adult study used to argue that American children are "highly medicated."

The latest version of the report, updated Friday, corrected some of the original errors. However, NOTUS reported that it again misrepresented studies and distorted research to make unsupported claims, including medicating children.

In a section titled "American children are highly medicated — and it's not working," the MAHA Commission claimed psychotherapy is more effective than medication for treating children's mental health issues. To support the claim, the report cited a study by renowned psychologist Pim Cuijpers. However, Cuijpers told NOTUS that his research focused exclusively on psychiatric medications in adults.

"Treatments of depression in adolescents have a very different efficacy than treatments in adults, so they cannot be compared, and this reference is therefore not usable in adolescents," Cuijpers clarified. "It also fails to state that the combination of therapy and antidepressants is superior to therapy or antidepressants alone."

Cuijpers added that the report's claim that "antidepressant prescription rates in teens increased 14-fold between 1987 and 2014" was a "strange" assertion.

"Modern antidepressants were developed in the late 1980s. So it can also be said that these drugs were simply used for adolescents who could benefit from them," Cuijpers told NOTUS.

Last week, the Trump administration defended the initial version of the 73-page report, calling it a "transformative" achievement, despite the fact that it cited several studies that do not exist.

For example, the report claimed "American children are on too much medicine" and cited a study supposedly authored by pediatric pulmonologist Dr. Harold J. Farber. But Farber denied writing the report, noting that while he is conducting similar research, its findings were misrepresented.

Originally published on Latin Times