3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (420+ words) (The Center Square) - A Washington state marriage and family therapist will have another opportunity to challenge a 2018 Washington law that his attorneys contend censored his speech. In 2018, Washington state enacted a counseling censorship law that prohibited Tingley from counseling young…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (266+ words) (The Center Square) – The Department of Veterans Affairs is touting a new psilocybin trial as relief for veterans with treatment-resistant depression, but the study won't finish until 2031, and any treatment it yields would come later still. VA has not said…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (887+ words) Zimmerman: Research Doesn't Support LEAD Program Claims (The Center Square) - New analysis from Washington Policy Center’s Director of Public Safety Solutions is casting doubt on the success claims of a program to reduce arrests, prosecutions and incarceration for individuals involved…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (803+ words) (The Center Square) – Louisiana utility regulators sided with Meta on Wednesday, blocking an order that would have forced the tech giant to turn over records showing how it calculated the jobs and electricity demand behind its massive Richland Parish data…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1760+ words) The nonprofit Erase PTSD Now has been awarded Illinois state grant money to fund obscure treatments for post traumatic stress disorder, which involve injecting anesthetics deep in sufferers’ necks. All of that money is flowing to a clinic owned by…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (297+ words) (The Center Square) – Gov. J.B. Pritzker says Illinois is getting away from mass mental health facilities and moving developmentally disabled people into smaller group housing. Union members and local officials in Union County rallied this week against the planned downsizing…...

3+ week, 6+ hour ago   (442+ words) (The Center Square) – The spokeswoman for Allegheny County’s chief executive returned from administrative leave on Monday following controversial statements she made about a local radio host. Abigail Gardner, communications director for County Executive Sara Innamorato, apologized in a statement on…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (665+ words) (The Center Square) - While still in its early stages, legislation to conduct a study of mental health treatment in Pennsylvania's county jails has been proposed in Harrisburg with bipartisan support. Sponsored by Democratic Rep. Sean Dougherty, the mental health study…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (393+ words) (The Center Square) – Groundbreaking on Georgia's first state mental health hospital since the 1960s is planned for November, and it will be operational in 30 months. Kevin Tanner, commissioner of the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities, shared the news…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (496+ words) (The Center Square) - Following a state law passed last year, Colorado public school districts are now required to enforce a phone policy for students. The effort to curb student phone use has quickly spread across the U.S. in recent years. Legislation…...