mental health

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

Pandemic Hits Harm Reduction Workers Hard—Particularly “Peers”

A few weeks back, Soma Snakeoil, an artist and the founder of Los Angeles-based organization the Sidewalk Project, came across…

January 14, 2021

Blueberries, Xanny Bars, Clazzys: My Anxiety-Driven Benzo Journey

I have been doing Valium since the age of 16. They were called “blueberries” where I was from, and there…

January 12, 2021

Reason to Raise a Glass: The Alcohol-Zero-Tolerance Project Is Doomed

The World Health Organization has declared that there is no safe level of drinking—a zero-tolerance, just-say-no approach to alcohol. Public…

December 24, 2020

Forced, Rapid Adoptions Are a Weapon of the Drug War

“I hate myself.” The words slipped out of my youngest child’s mouth with a casual levity. Only 5 years old,…

December 21, 2020

NYC’s New Non-Police Mental Health Crisis Response Still Resembles Policing

New York City receives 200,000 mental health-related 911 calls each year. In addition to the Emergency Medical Technicians who respond…

December 2, 2020

A Hugely Promising Study of Psilocybin Treatment for Depression

The first-ever randomized clinical trial of psilocybin-assisted therapy for people with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder was published in…

November 23, 2020

UK on the Brink of a Psychedelic Therapy Revolution

Bristol, the English city that produced street artist Banksy, will soon see the opening of the world’s first psychedelic-assisted therapy…

November 16, 2020

Despite Immunity Law, Virginia Woman Charged After Calling 911 for Alleged Meth Crisis

Virginia has a new "Good Samaritan" law designed to protect people who call 911 for a drug-related health emergency from…

October 8, 2020

The LEAD Program Faces a Reckoning for Centering Police

The murder of George Floyd and the explosion of protests against police terror led by the Black Lives Matter (BLM)…

September 17, 2020