I just returned from a funeral of a patient who died from a drug overdose. I’m a pediatrician, not an internist. This girl was too young to die and to be depressed. Her life was filled with trials but she had great parents and supportive siblings. And I want to be very clear here: Her parents did everything right. They were fabulous parents and are in no way responsible for their daughter’s death. And that’s the real scary part. Sadly, this is a story that has become far too frequent. I’ve been practicing pediatrics for 32 years and have never seen the prevalence of depression in kids that we have now. We can blame COVID and the isolation it mandated as the cause of rising depression and anxiety, and in part this is true. But before COVID, many teens we primed for this suffering by many factors at work. Devastating …