Tag: mental health
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Psilocybin Helped Doctors and Nurses Who Worked Through the Pandemic
Many doctors and nurses suffered severe mental health impacts after working through the worst ...
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 ...
Learning to Live With Suicide in Prison
[This article describes deaths by suicide, including references to the methods of suicide.] ...
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 ...
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, ...
Marijuana and Working Memory: Research Contradicts Stereotypes
Researchers looking into the effects of medical marijuana use on brain processes say in ...
Psychedelic Advocates Air FDA Frustrations at Reagan-Udall Meeting
On September 6, the Reagan-Udall Foundation for the Food and Drug Administration, an independent ...
