mental health

As SAMHSA Cuts Loom, Behavioral Health Orgs Fight to Protect Funding

Harm reduction providers and other community groups are in chaos they await updates on the fate of withdrawn grant funding…

April 17, 2025

Supreme Court Will Hear Challenge to Conversion Therapy Ban

On March 10, the Supreme Court stated that it will review the constitutionality of a state ban on conversion therapy…

March 13, 2025

After Police Abuse Findings, Trenton Mayor Wants More Police Funding

Trenton, New Jersey, has been violating people’s civil rights, according to a federal investigation into the city’s police department. The…

March 4, 2025

TN City Council Wants Opioid Grant to Pair Cops With Social Workers

There's controversy in Knoxville, Tennessee, after its lawmakers approved of opioid settlement money being used to pay for a program…

February 6, 2025

Minnesota Task Force Backs Psilocybin Decrim, Legal Therapeutic Use

Minnesota’s Psychedelic Medicine Task Force has released a long-awaited legislative report. It recommends that the state move toward decriminalizing psilocybin…

January 7, 2025

Psilocybin Helped Doctors and Nurses Who Worked Through the Pandemic

Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst days of the COVID-19 pandemic, including…

December 10, 2024

VA Funds MDMA Study to Treat Veterans’ PTSD and Alcohol Use Disorder

The United States Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is sponsoring historic research to treat veterans with MDMA. On December 3,…

December 5, 2024

Learning to Live With Suicide in Prison

[This article describes deaths by suicide, including references to the methods of suicide.]              …

November 14, 2024

Multnomah County, Oregon, Begins Its Post-Decrim “Deflection” Strategy

Oregon recriminalized drug possession on September 1—overturning the voter-approved Measure 110, which decriminalized simple possession of all drugs from early…

October 8, 2024

License Fees a Sticking Point as Colorado Plans Legal Psilocybin Services

The clock is ticking for legal psilocybin therapy to begin in Colorado. In 2022, voters approved Proposition 122, a measure…

October 3, 2024