Opinions & Reports

A recent article in Popular Information tries to cast Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the Trump administration, and critics of psychiatric overprescribing as reckless zealots. That narrative is politically convenient, but it is not an honest description of what the...

Executive Summary Florida's mental health law, commonly referred to as the Baker Act, gives the state the power to detain individuals for up to 72 hours of involuntary psychiatric examination. What happens to those individuals once the door to a Baker Act Receiving...

Imagine dropping your child off at school in the morning and receiving a phone call hours later telling you they've been transported to a psychiatric facility; without your knowledge, without your consent, and without any opportunity to say goodbye. This is not a...

America’s mental health crisis is real, but the answer is not to double down on coercion, expand forced treatment, or let federal policy drift toward a one-size-fits-all model that too often puts bureaucracy ahead of people. The recent federal tracker from KFF shows a...

When "Feeling Better" Isn't the Same as Being Healed The recent buzz surrounding Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s call to scrutinize antidepressant prescribing practices has ignited a firestorm of passionate, deeply personal responses from Americans across the...

A shocking new series of lawsuits against Acadia Healthcare’s Southwood Psychiatric Hospital in Pennsylvania should serve as a warning to every Florida lawmaker, regulator, and parent. According to the complaints, child and adolescent patients at Southwood were...

Florida’s latest mental health scandal is not a one‑off tragedy; it is a case study in how a publicly funded system can fail both the people it claims to help and the communities that pay for it. A billion‑dollar brand, a deadly gap Centerstone of Florida is no fringe...

Walk into any VA clinic or community mental health center serving veterans in Florida and you will hear the same heartbreaking themes: “I was never told,” “No one warned me,” “They just put me on more pills.” Men and women who once wore the uniform of this country are...

Florida Baker-Acted 161,000 People Last Year. Why Is No One Asking Whether It Worked? Last year, Florida law enforcement officers, nurses, and physicians stripped 161,576 people of their freedom; not because they had committed a crime, not because they had been...

Florida’s mental health system is at a crossroads, and the latest state reports show that the “solutions” being put forward are the same ones that have failed far too many families: more beds, more drugs, more coercive interventions; just with bigger budgets and...