Tag: 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 ...
Oklahoma Senate Advances Research-Focused Ibogaine Bill
The Oklahoma State Senate voted on April 29 to pass the Oklahoma Breakthrough Therapy ...
Louisiana “Homelessness Court” Would Offer Treatment, Forced Labor
On April 28, a Louisiana Senate committee advanced a homelessness criminalization bill brightly titled ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Georgia Moves Backwards With New Forensic Mental Health Hospital
For the past 16 years, Georgia was under a federal injunction: It could not ...
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 ...
Media Exploitation of Reiner Family Tragedy Pushes the Carceral Agenda
After director Rob Reiner and photographer Michele Singer Reiner were found stabbed to death ...
Federal Bill Would Give Some Patients “Right to Try” Psychedelics
The final weeks of 2025 have brought overlapping psychedelic drug policy efforts in Washington. ...
