mental health

Media Exploitation of Reiner Family Tragedy Pushes the Carceral Agenda

After director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home December…

December 31, 2025

Federal Bill Would Give Some Patients “Right to Try” Psychedelics

The final weeks of 2025 have brought overlapping psychedelic drug policy efforts in Washington. Since early December, advocates have presented…

December 18, 2025

Legal Marijuana Access Linked to Fewer Suicides Among Older Adults

States that opened adult-use marijuana dispensaries saw suicide rates decline among older adults, according to a new scientific analysis of…

December 12, 2025

New Mexico to Accelerate Launch of Therapeutic Psilocybin Access

New Mexico health officials have announced plans to launch the state’s medical psilocybin therapy program by the end of December…

December 9, 2025

A Prison Mental Health Unit Is Left in Gen Pop, and the Grievance Is Ignored

South Central Correctional Facility is one of six Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC) prisons with a supportive living unit (SLU)…

October 9, 2025

Europe’s “Huge Breakthrough” in Access to Psychedelic Therapies

After almost three decades of psychopharmacological research—and having treated thousands of psychiatric patients with psychotropic drugs like antidepressants and antipsychotics—Dr.…

September 3, 2025

What Decades in Prison Have Taught Me About Resisting Incarceration

In 2006, the prison where I was being housed routinely served a breakfast that included worms in the oatmeal, and…

August 27, 2025

The Mental Health Impact of a Prison’s Short-Lived, Off-Book Yoga Class

Buggs*, about 20 years into a life sentence in Georgia Department of Corrections (GDC) custody, has built his self-preservation routine…

August 19, 2025

Divisions Over Mayor’s Shelter Plans in Portland, Oregon

A plan from Mayor Keith Wilson (D) of Portland, Oregon, to build new shelter beds for people experiencing homelessness has…

July 31, 2025

Trump’s “Sick” Executive Order Targets Unhoused People and Harm Reduction

On July 24, President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order that allows—and incentivizes—states and cities to purge encampments of…

July 30, 2025