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This week in US mental health policy: fifteen states sued to stop the administration from defunding school mental health grants in defiance of a court order; SAMHSA survived elimination again but faces deep cuts; and the One Big Beautiful Bill’s Medicaid dismantling enters the rulemaking phase where the real damage is determined.
This week the world got a clearer map to preventing dementia, a six-month report card on Australia’s youth social media ban, and a landmark review of what is actually working in mental health care across the Global South—all pointing toward a more evidence-based, culturally grounded, and community-centered future.
This week’s mental health research news brought a wave of genuinely hopeful signal: psychedelic therapies advancing toward FDA review, AI reshaping treatment personalization, and a landmark Social Media-wellbeing study settling a long-running scientific debate.
Australia is doubling down on its world-first social media ban. The UK enacted a landmark mental health law overhaul. The WHO issued a framework to embed mental health into every sector of government. Three signals that the world is actively trying to do better.
One year since the One Big Beautiful Bill Act became law, the cuts to Medicaid are moving from spreadsheet projections to shuttered psychiatric units. Here is what has actually happened — and what is still coming.
This week’s science brought two landmark findings that could reshape how we treat PTSD, depression, and youth psychiatric illness — plus a pipeline brimming with new possibilities. Here’s what’s breaking through.
England is enacting landmark mental health law reforms. WHO’s free digital depression tool is reaching crisis zones. Australia is naming its gaps honestly. And the world’s largest mental health science prize just opened. Something is stirring globally.
Researchers are clarifying how ketamine therapies compare for hard-to-treat depression, uncovering surprising mental health benefits in a common diabetes drug, and building smarter suicide prevention tools — all signs of a field moving in hopeful directions.
The US mental health system is navigating a cascade of funding cuts, a new Medicaid rule that threatens coverage for millions with mental illness, and a government that keeps reversing itself — with real people absorbing every shock.
The federal government is simultaneously proposing new SAMHSA cuts, enforcing a narrowed Medicaid medical-frailty rule that threatens coverage for millions with serious mental illness, and leaving mental health parity protections unenforced. This is a structural attack on the behavioral health system at the moment of greatest need.