New Research Shows Risks of Coercive Psychiatric Treatment

A new study from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is raising difficult but necessary questions about a practice that affects hundreds of thousands of lives each year: involuntary psychiatric hospitalization.

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This equates to a 79% increase in risk of being charged with a violent crime, and almost a doubled risk of dying by suicide or overdose, in the three months following evaluation for hospitalization.

The researchers also found hospitalization often caused destabilization. It led to declines in employment and earnings, and increased use of homeless shelters. It did not lead to better outpatient care or more consistent medication use.

RFK Jr. Is Headlining the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. This Doesn’t Bode Well.

April 24, 2025April 24, 2025 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

On April 21, the first day of the 14th annual Rx and Illicit Drug Summit, organizers announced a surprise presenter for the closing plenary on April 24: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., newly minted Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and vocal proponent of building labor camps for people who use drugs.
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Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight

August 31, 2023August 31, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Russia today says that it has intercepted a Ukrainian commando team, seeking to conduct sabotage operations in Russia’s Bryansk Region. Redacted correspondent Mike Jones is in Russia and he’s been speaking to members of the Ukrainian army that were captured and are now in Russia.
Captured Ukrainian Soldiers Speak Out, Forced to Take Drugs To Fight via Redacted.

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GOP debate bloodbath over Ukraine leaves room for agreement — on China

August 26, 2023August 26, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

GOP debate bloodbath over Ukraine leaves room for agreement — on China

For all the talk about a divided GOP on foreign policy, it should be clear that when it comes to China, these eight candidates are more in agreement about where the country should be training its firepower, than not. Pinning them each down on what exactly they are proposing, and how far they will go to meet the threat, would be an interesting next exercise, sans the bloodletting.

Bombing Mexico to stop drug cartels from supplying US with fentanyl is a terrible idea

July 10, 2023July 10, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The early stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign is underway — and with it a boatload of bad ideas and policy initiatives. One of the worst but increasingly popular proposals, uttered by several politicians aspiring for the highest office in the land, is to use the military to combat the drug cartels that have smuggled gargantuan amounts of fentanyl into the United States and turned swaths of neighboring Mexico into a war zone.
Bombing Mexico to stop drug cartels from supplying US with fentanyl is a terrible idea

Maybe they should call the Taliban for help?! /s

United States of Death? Study Shows Worrying Mortality Rates of Broken Health System

August 28, 2022August 28, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Researchers find that the nation had become an outlier among other rich countries in mortality rates long before the pandemic—and that Americans are dying younger than their peers abroad.
United States of Death? Study Shows Worrying Mortality Rates of Broken Health System

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RFK Jr. Is Headlining the Rx and Illicit Drug Summit. This Doesn’t Bode Well.

GOP debate bloodbath over Ukraine leaves room for agreement — on China