mental health

New Orleans Result Could Increase Reformers’ Focus on Sheriff Elections

Since 2015, both Big Philanthropy funders and progressive grassroots activists have targeted local district attorney elections, seeing these once-sleepy affairs…

December 15, 2021

People Changed the Ways They Use Drugs During the Pandemic

The 2021 Global Drug Survey (GDS), the newly published report from the largest annual survey of people who use drugs,…

December 8, 2021

Warn That Alcohol Causes Cancer? Add That Drinkers Live Longer.

“There is no safe level of alcohol,” WHO Europe headlined in 2018. “Zero alcohol consumption minimizes the overall risk of…

September 20, 2021

In Canada, End-of-Life Therapy May Be the Path to Legal Psilocybin

In August 2020, 53-year-old Thomas Hartle became the first Canadian to legally undergo psilocybin-assisted therapy. Hartle, who currently has stage…

August 9, 2021

Psychedelics’ Exciting Potential to Benefit Autistic People

[This article is published in collaboration with Narcotica, a podcast about drugs and the people who use them, hosted by…

May 24, 2021

There Was Nothing “Wasted” About My Youth Spent Clubbing on Ecstasy

Some of us who spent a lot of time using drugs in our youth have a tendency to look back…

May 18, 2021

Groundbreaking PTSD Trial Moves MDMA Closer to Medical Approval

On May 3, MDMA—the psychedelic drug colloquially known as Molly or ecstasy—moved one step closer to receiving medical approval for…

May 6, 2021

Study Shows How Much Vapes Can Help Smokers With Schizophrenia

A groundbreaking study from Italy with adults who have schizophrenia spectrum disorders found that using JUUL vapes helped some 40…

March 22, 2021

How Will Oregon Implement Legal Psilocybin Therapy?

Oregon has begun a two-year process to implement its Psilocybin Services Act, making the state the first in the nation…

March 17, 2021

Why Didn’t Rochester’s New Mental Health Crisis Team Prevent Latest Police Brutality?

An incident of police brutality in Rochester, New York, calls into question reforms the city has put in place to…

February 9, 2021