SafeTech NC, a wireless-safety advocacy group, based in North Carolina, has written an overview of five decades of peer-reviewed research on radio-frequency radiation and mood symptoms, arguing the youth mental health crisis is not only a story about screen design and content.
The piece, written by Mary Anne Tierney with Environmental Health Trust, also flags that 24 US states have now passed bell-to-bell school phone policies while North Carolina's 2025 "instructional time only" rule still leaves phones accessible throughout the school day.
"As of August 1, 2026, there are now 24 US states that have passed bell-to-bell policies (from the first to the final bell of the school day). As we at SafeTech NC have previously reported, NC still needs such a policy. The current "instructional time only" policy passed by the NC General Assembly in 2025 still allows access to phones throughout the school day, causing massive problems with attention, dysregulation, and enforcement nightmares for our underpaid, overworked public school teachers."
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📍 North Carolina, United States
