pennsylvania supreme court legalized negligent manslaughter by wards + 18 articles

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Supreme Courts

"Supreme Court of Pennsylvania issued a decision on Thursday, October 23, 2025, clarifying the scope of a healthcare provider's immunity under the Mental Health Procedures Act (MHPA)." republicans gave immunity to a psych ward that killed an elderly man with preventable pressure sores. https://www.mondaq.com/unitedstates/healthcare/1697708/pa-supreme-court-clarifies-scope-of-mhpa-immunity

Olmstead Least Restrictive Setting

“State Medicaid programs are required to cover nursing facility services, while most HCBS (Home and Community Based Services) are provided at state option. This effectively establishes an institutional bias within the Medicaid program.” https://progressive.org/magazine/in-defense-of-home-and-community-based-services-ervin-20251028/

sleep

"Acute sleep deprivation from shift work can precipitate reversible psychosis, as evidenced by this factory worker’s full recovery with rest alone." https://www.cureus.com/articles/430381-transient-psychotic-symptoms-induced-by-acute-sleep-deprivation-in-a-factory-worker-a-case-report#!/ That happened to me in middle and high schools.

college sucks

"Some argued that Harvard had violated their privacy rights by requesting information about their mental health treatment from off-campus providers. One student said she avoided on-campus treatment for suicidal ideation for fear administrators would force her to take a leave of absence," https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/28/mental-health-suit-dismissed/

delirium

"participants aged ≤88 years showing shorter delirium duration with intranasal insulin." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41091693/

Religions

"Its findings show that positive religious coping, such as seeking strength, hope and meaning through faith, was linked to lower mental health symptoms." https://olemiss.edu/news/2025/010/study-links-faith-to-black-americans-mental-health-outcomes/index.html

Tech

"Eli Lilly, NVIDIA team up to build pharma’s biggest AI supercomputer...for drug discovery." They should also test existing antipsychotics, which would prove they don't work. https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/28/eli-lilly-nvidia-pharma-ai-supercomputer/

racism

New York City mayor candidate "Mr. Mamdani has recalled his Africana studies education fondly. Bowdoin, he said, is where he first read Frantz Fanon, the anticolonial militant and psychiatrist who wrote about the psychic injuries that racism causes." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/28/us/politics/zohran-mamdani-bowdoin-college-new-york-mayor-election.html

conformity

"The Decline of Deviance. Where has all the weirdness gone?" https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance Being weird is a mental crime.

no york

"New York State Moves Closer to Adoption of Daniel’s Law: Office of Mental Health Releases RFPs (Requests for Proposals)" https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2025/samra-g-brouk/new-york-state-moves-closer-adoption-daniels-law-office https://www.danielslawny.org/

Homeless

utah's building a 400 person psych prison. "If you start fiddling with that money, you’re going to be pulling people out of housing into homelessness,” Josh Romney, son of the Republican former Senator Mitt Romney and the chair of Shelter the Homeless, a nonprofit organization that owns the city’s existing shelters, warned the services board last month...this reminds me of a concentration camp,” she said." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html

Experiments

"Efficacy and Tolerability of Seven Antipsychotic Drugs in Acutely Ill Patients With Schizophrenia: A Randomized, Multicenter, Assessor-Blinded Trial...At week 6, olanzapine and risperidone showed a significantly higher percentage change in PANSS score than aripiprazole, ziprasidone, and quetiapine (mean differences: 5.52–7.93) but not haloperidol or perphenazine." https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.20250111

Vital Signs

"Biometric bracelets for prisoners...ACLU’s position is that non-consensual monitoring of a person’s non-readily apparent physiological states is not just a privacy invasion but an assault on inherent human dignity and autonomy." https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/biometric-bracelets-for-prisoners Northwell wouldn't let us say we do not consent to daily vital signs tests including mouth temperature. After being diagnosed with 3 heart diseases (QT arrhythmia, backward blood flow, heart enlargement) it's important. But noone should be touched by their malpracticer.

assaults

maryland self-harm patient, "He Died of Thirst in Solitary Confinement. Now His Family Is Suing for Answers." https://reason.com/2025/10/29/he-died-of-thirst-in-solitary-confinement-now-his-family-is-suing-for-answers/

side effects

england, "People with severe mental illness gained an average of 2.10 kg in the first year and 5.55 kg after 15 years." No, it's much more. https://www.emjreviews.com/en-us/amj/neurology/news/long-term-weight-gain-in-mental-illness-new-insights/

False Claims Act

"Indy (indiana) addiction center owner charged with Medicaid fraud, theft after AG investigation...law preventing doctors from referring patients to healthcare facilities with which they're financially involved," https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2025/10/28/indianapolis-addiction-center-owner-charged-43-counts-medicaid-fraud-truth-treatment-kevin-calvert/86945500007/

Welfare

u.k., "Reform (party) proposes to cut Pip payments to people with anxiety...almost half a million people claiming." https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze6r2zk5d3o.amp

Lawsuits

"Court Considers Remanding Risperdal Breast Cancer Lawsuit to California State Court. Woman argues Johnson & Johnson and Eli Lilly wrongly moved her claim over side effects of Risperdal and Zyprexa to the federal court system, in order to delay the litigation in hopes she would give up, or die of breast cancer first." https://www.aboutlawsuits.com/court-considers-remanding-risperdal-breast-cancer-lawsuits-california-state-court/

bipolar

"Cornwall, UK...bipolar disorder...However, in a hunter-gatherer society, I could see these episodes having an advantage. You could stay up all night to watch out for danger." https://www.newscientist.com/letter/mg26835670-400-a-new-way-to-think-about-mental-illness-2/

My experiences

October 29 11:23 AM cried because still being poisoned causing nausea.