IOM releases report on preventing mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders among young people: progress and possibilities.

National Academy of Sciences • National Academy of Engineering • Institute of Medicine • National Research Council Mental, emotional, and behavioral (MEB) disorders—which include depression, conduct disorder, and substance abuse—affect large numbers of young people. Studies indicate that MEB disorders are a major health threat and are as commonplace today among young people as a fractured limb-—not inevitable but not at all unusual. Almost one in five young people have one or more MEB disorders at any given time. Among adults, half of all MEB disorders were first diagnosed by age 14 and three-fourths by age 24.