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MENTAL HEALTH
Major Study Finds 0 of 22 New Psychiatric Drugs Were Clinically Helpful
The peer‑reviewed analysis reveals that psychotropics have failed to produce benefit for patients even as their use has surged and serious risks accumulate, prompting calls for regulatory overhaul.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Epstein Fallout Widens as Scrutiny Turns to Tony Ortega’s History Defending Pedophiles
Amid the collapse of careers over even distant ties to Jeffrey Epstein, Tony Ortega’s public contempt for efforts to expose predators set the stage for a lifetime of defending the sexual exploitation of kids.
HATE
Savanna Neighbors Ordered to Pay $100,000 in Illinois’ First Civil Hate Crime Case Over Racist Harassment
Attorney General Kwame Raoul secured the first victory under Illinois’ amended Hate Crime Act after a Black homeowner was terrorized with swastikas, a Confederate flag and a lynched effigy. The ruling comes as hate crimes surge statewide.
MENTAL HEALTH
Involuntary ECT on the Rise in Connecticut as Patient Alleges Forced Electroshock Destroyed His Life
Despite UN calls for bans on involuntary electroshock, new applications for forced ECT at two Connecticut hospitals soared 650 percent in four years—highlighting alarming gaps in consent and patient protections.
DRUGS
Brooklyn Drug Dealer Charged After Abandoning 4-Year-Old Son to Die From Fentanyl
Yitzchok “Isak” Sklar reportedly left his dying son in a family shelter while fleeing to hide his drug stash. Sklar and his drug supplier kept selling fentanyl after the boy’s death, and now face federal charges.
DRUGS
Nearly 1 in 4 Injured Drivers Test Positive for Drugs, Victoria Study Finds
A Monash University analysis of blood tests shows nearly a quarter of injured drivers had illicit drugs in their system. “It’s scary to all of us,” notes a public safety advocate on the rising trend of drugged driving.
MENTAL HEALTH
Patients Die After “Spit Hoods” Are Used in Psychiatric Restraints
A Seattle Times investigation shows at least five patient deaths tied to spit hoods over the past decade, yet 15 states still deploy them in mental health settings with no federal safety rules.
HUMAN RIGHTS
UN Lawyer Arielle Silverstein’s Support for Backpage Sex Trafficking Apologist Raises Integrity Questions
As the UN champions global efforts against modern-day slavery, scrutiny is mounting over whether its attorney’s financial support of her husband—who long defended the world’s largest child sex trafficking marketplace—undermines the institution’s human rights mandate.
MENTAL HEALTH
One in Four Dementia Patients Prescribed Lethal Psychiatric Drugs, According to First-of-Its-Kind Study
A new large-scale study scrutinizing psychiatric prescribing finds clinicians continue to give high-risk drugs to Medicare dementia patients—most of the time with no documented justification at all.
MENTAL HEALTH
New Study Finds Pregnant Women on Antidepressants Face Far Higher Risk of Having Autistic Kids
Researchers tracked more than 1,000 Australian infants and found children whose mothers used antidepressants in the last three months of pregnancy had up to nine times higher odds of developing autism.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Kansas Jury Awards $5 Million to Professor in Religious Discrimination Case
A jury found that, after more than two decades at Emporia State, a tenured professor was unlawfully disciplined and pushed out by his own university for observing long-held religious holidays.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Veteran Wins Major Civil Rights Verdict Over LAPD Psychiatric Detention
A Los Angeles jury awarded $6.8 million to Army veteran Slade Douglas, after finding police unlawfully seized him and forced him into an unconstitutional mental health hold—based on a false report.
