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DOJ, VA to Take Legal Guardianship of Unhoused Veterans for “Ongoing Care”

On March 11, the Department of Justice and the Department of Veterans Affairs jointly announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU)…

March 17, 2026

New Mexico Will Fund Psychedelic Treatment for Patients on Low Incomes

On March 11, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) signed the budget for the upcoming fiscal year into law,…

March 17, 2026

How Tennessee’s Anti-LGBTQ+ Bills Are Already Playing Out in Prison

Through my three decades of incarceration in Tennessee, I’ve seen attitudes toward LGBTQ+ prisoners like myself change a lot. But…

March 16, 2026

The Youth-Smoking Collapse Nobody Wants to Talk About

For more than a decade, one of the most persistent claims in the tobacco control echo chamber has been that…

March 16, 2026

Fair Future Act Takes Aim at Housing Discrimination Over Drug Convictions

Bipartisan congressional lawmakers have filed a bill that would repeal a decades-old federal statute that’s led to the denial of…

March 13, 2026

Mortality Rate for LA’s Unhoused Residents Drops for the First Time

For the first time in the decade that the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has been tracking mortality…

March 12, 2026

Bill Would Require the VA to Study and Provide Psychedelic Treatments

A new bipartisan bill would mandate the Department of Veterans Affairs to establish "innovative therapies centers of excellence" that would…

March 12, 2026

FDA Eyeing “Drug Disposal” Products, for Destroying Rx Opioids at Home

The Food and Drug Administration is asking the public to weigh in on the merits of commercial drug-disposal products, for…

March 11, 2026

Why Ecuador Is Partnering in US Drug-War Strikes

On March 6, the United States “Department of War” released its latest Hollywood movie production. The brief video celebrated the…

March 11, 2026

Georgia Moves Backwards With New Forensic Mental Health Hospital

For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not build any state-run psychiatric hospitals, because…

March 10, 2026