mental health

“Striking Increase” in Public Support for Legal Access to Psychedelics

There’s been a “striking increase” in support for legal and regulated therapeutic access to psychedelics as well as expanded research…

May 15, 2026

Oklahoma Senate Advances Research-Focused Ibogaine Bill

The Oklahoma State Senate voted on April 29 to pass the Oklahoma Breakthrough Therapy Act. Formally known as House Bill…

May 4, 2026

Louisiana “Homelessness Court” Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor

On April 28, a Louisiana Senate committee advanced a homelessness criminalization bill brightly titled “Streets to Success.” The legislation would…

April 30, 2026

Trump Orders FDA to “Dramatically” Fast-Track Psychedelic Therapy Access

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order aimed at expanding and expediting research on the potential therapeutic benefits of psychedelics,…

April 20, 2026

Hopes of Shutting Rikers Grow Under Mamdani, as Deaths Continue

On March 25, 39-year-old Barry Cozart collapsed at Rikers, New York City’s notorious island jail complex. He’d been held on…

April 15, 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

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

After “Iryna’s Law,” Behavioral Crisis Response in NC Grows More Carceral

On February 5, North Carolina Governor Josh Stein (D) signed an executive order titled “Protecting North Carolinians Through Stronger Behavioral…

February 13, 2026

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