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The Addiction Podcast — Point of No Return
Host: Joanie Sigal
Published: S8, E451 — January 8, 2026 (23 min)
Diane Stein reveals the evidence linking mass shootings to dangerous psychiatric drugs — a side of the story the media rarely covers. She breaks down the science and the cover-ups in a way that is easy to understand but impossible to forget.
Great Day Live Tampa
Source: wtsp.com
Published: July 29, 2025
Annual event commemorating Purple Heart Day. Attended by hundreds of veterans, active-duty military and their families, held annually to honor members of the U.S. military in observance of Purple Heart Day.
The New York Times
By: Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Katie Thomas
Published: September 1, 2024 — Consultant to the Reporters
A New York Times investigation found that Acadia Healthcare has lured patients into its facilities and held them against their will, even when detaining them was not medically necessary. In at least 12 of 19 states, patients, employees and police officers alerted authorities to unlawful detentions.
Great Day Live Tampa
Source: wtsp.com
Published: July 29, 2024
7th Annual event commemorating Purple Heart Day, honoring members of the U.S. military and veterans. First given in 1932, a Purple Heart is awarded to U.S. military personnel wounded or killed in action.
WFSU Public Media
COMMITTED: Why And How Children Are the Fastest Growing Group Under Florida’s Baker Act
Stein acted as a consultant for this award-winning 5-part investigative series on the Baker Act and was interviewed for the final segment.
“This law is being abused and parents are being left out of the process,” Stein said.
Newsweek
- Mental Health Expert: Why Are We Still Electroshocking Children? — Jan 17, 2024
- Human Rights Expert: Parents Deserve to Be Involved In Their Child’s Mental Health — Jul 19, 2023
- How To Ensure School Mental Health Initiatives Don’t Violate Parental Rights — Mar 31, 2023
- Why Everyone Should Care About Coercive Psychiatry — Jun 2, 2022
- What the Mental Health Industry Gets Wrong About Suicide Prevention — Dec 21, 2021
Newsweek — Featured Article
Published: May 8, 2024
History Lesson: The State of Mental Health in Our Schools — How Did We Get Here?
Two trends in American student life are not just threatening the mental health of our children but stripping them of the power to think critically. The 19th-century education reformer John Dewey could never have foreseen how young people today would be so profoundly influenced by technology.
FOX 4 Southwest Florida
Children in Crisis, Florida’s Baker Acted Kids
Surge in Baker Act exams for children under 10. “There’s a huge problem,” said Diane Stein. “The Baker Act kind of becomes a knee jerk solution for schools in order to handle these types of situations when they don’t know exactly what to do with the child.”
News 6 WKMG CBS
Orlando-area schools see increase in Baker Acts on students after Parkland shooting
“It is just too easy to Baker Act,” Stein said. “The simple solution is bring the parents in. The majority of parents are good people; they want to help their kids. That education point alone would go a long way to reducing the number of Baker Acts of children in the state.”
Electroshock Therapy — Protest March
The Citizens Commission on Human Rights of Florida held a demonstration in protest of electroshock therapy (ECT) and in support of a ban on its use. The President of CCHR in Florida, Diane Stein, was interviewed for the story.
WFLA News Channel 8 — December 1, 2023
Additional Media Coverage
Washington Post
- In Florida, showing mental health struggles could get a child detained — March 16, 2023
- Mental-health counselors twice advised against committing Nikolas Cruz before school shooting — March 19, 2018
Newsweek
- Mental Health Expert: Debunking the Holiday Season Suicide Rates Myth — Dec 29, 2022
- Psychotropic Medication and Addiction: What You Can Do — Nov 17, 2022
- Here’s Why Tracking Of Electroconvulsive Therapy Should Be Mandatory Across the Nation — Oct 13, 2022
Did Medication Lead to Murder?
Diane Stein acted as a consultant for this four-part investigative series on psychiatric drug side effects and violence.
Bizarre tale of millionaire Neal Jacobson: Did medication lead to murder? — Palm Beach Post, January 20, 2022
Podcasts
- Parental Rights, The State Does Not Raise Your Children with Diane Stein — Create Your Own Life, November 2022
- Diane Stein the Anti Depressant Controversy — The Addiction Podcast, October 27, 2022
ABC Action News Tampa
- Baker Act exams decrease for the first time in more than 20 years — June 8, 2021
- FL schools aren’t mandated to have Baker Act policies — January 25, 2019
- Children in Crisis, Florida’s Baker Acted Kids — February 26, 2018
WFSU / WUSF Public Media
- Advocates Cheer Passage Of Bill Requiring Baker Act Parental Notification — May 24, 2021
- Southern Poverty Law Center Reports On Child Baker Act Use — March 23, 2021
- Committed: Improving Florida’s Baker Act For Children A Challenge — December 18, 2020
Southern Poverty Law Center
COSTLY AND CRUEL: How Misuse of the Baker Act Harms 37,000 Florida Children Each Year — 2021
Tampa Bay Times
Certified on the Baker Act through training with the Department of Children and Families, Diane Stein worked with the Tampa Bay Times on a series of stories on Baker Act abuse.
Other Coverage
- Florida kids are getting sent to psychiatric units under the Baker Act in record numbers — News-Press, August 2019
- Watchdog: Number of Florida Kids Held Under Baker Act on the Rise — Spectrum News 13, May 2019
- State report examines sharp rise in Baker Act cases — CBS 12, December 2017
- Handcuffs and a psych exam for a 7-year-old? — Miami Herald, February 2018
- Baker Act cases on the rise, but some say it’s not working — 10 News WTSP, March 2018
- Electroshock Of Children Recommended By American Psychiatric Association, Human Rights Group Protests — Inquisitor, May 2016