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Some evenings stay with you because they remind you what this field is supposed to be about. The Release Recovery Foundation event was a powerful reflection of what becomes possible when people gather not around branding, recognition, or territory, but around a shared commitment to reducing suffering and expanding access to care.

What families misread in the first 48 hours of a mental health or addiction crisis — and why it costs them years. By Molly Bierman, CADC When families call me for the first time, they usually do so when they feel least capable of doing anything at all. A daughter came home from her freshman semester acting like someone else. A son relapsed three weeks after rehab. A sister disappeared for eight hours and came back with a story that doesn't line up. Whatever the event is, some

In just 48 hours, the legal shield protecting Big Tech didn't crack. It shattered. Between Tuesday and Wednesday this week (March 24-25, 2026), two separate juries on opposite sides of the country did something no jury had ever done before. They reviewed the evidence, weighed Silicon Valley's internal research against its p

This week, for the first time in history, the people who built Instagram are being forced to defend what they built before a jury. Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, took the stand in Los Angeles Superior Court on February 11. Under questioning, he testified that he did not consider 16 hours of daily Instagram use by a teenager to be addiction. He called it "problematic use." When asked about internal documents showing that Instagram had set a goal to in average teen engagem

The modern mentalhealth conversation has done something remarkable: it has brought once-taboo topics into everyday language. Trauma, boundaries, and anxiety are now part of the dinner table lexicon. That visibility helps destigmatize illness and encourages people to seek help.