"When he signed up for a psychedelic retreat run by a mysterious Argentine woman deep in Brazil's rainforest in early 2018, Ernesto Londoño, a veteran New York Times journalist, was so depressed he had come close to jumping off his terrace weeks earlier. His nine-day visit to Spirit Vine Ayahuasca Retreat Center included four nighttime ceremonies during which participants imbibed a vomit-inducing plant-based brew that contained DMT, a powerful mind-altering...

"When her husband, a brilliant doctor championing the lobotomy, spirals into deluded megalomania, mental illness advocate Ruth Emeraldine races to save a vulnerable young mother who is poised to be the next victim of his ambitions."--

Fourteen-year-old Georgie, struggling with rage and grief, begins to find his way back to sanity with the help of a sympathetic fellow resident, a patient teacher, and other staff at a school for emotionally disturbed teenagers.

Fewer than 55,000 Americans currently receive treatment in psychiatric hospitals. Meanwhile, almost 10 times that number, nearly 500,000, mentally ill men and women are serving time in U.S. jails and prisons. As sheriffs and prison wardens become the unexpected and often ill-equipped caretakers of this burgeoning population, they raise a troubling new concern: Have America's jails and prisons become its new asylums. The program goes deep inside Ohio's...