Focus: Adults in the Room
Episodes
Adults in the Room: The Price of Belief
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Garfield High School is shocked after learning their beloved principal is in an inappropriate relationship with a student. In the fallout of the revel...
Adults in the Room: Mounting Danger
24 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In 1998, a popular teacher at Garfield High School in Seattle — named Tom Hudson — falls into a crevasse while mountain-climbing in Olympi...
Coming Soon: Adults in the Room (Trailer)
03 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The production team behind Lost Patients returns on February 24 with a new investigative series: Adults in the Room. Seattle, 1999. At Garfield H...
Presenting: The Fifth Branch
27 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In Seattle, police responded to nearly ten thousand scenes of people in crisis last year. And one of the only remaining paths into Washington State's ...
Presenting: Hush
24 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A story from the 'Hush" investigative podcast from Oregon Public Broadcasting. In this episode, reporter Leah Sottile explores the case of Jesse Lee J...
Lost Patients Live: First-Person Stories from Seattle's Mental Health Crisis
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Lost Patients compares the system for treating mental illness in America to an elaborate house, where every room, hallway and staircase was designed i...
Disease Without Knowledge
23 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"Something is preventing us from building a system that works for people with serious mental illness. In lieu of that, patients are often left to impr...
Coming up on Lost Patients
16 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A look ahead at the final episode of Lost Patients, coming next week on April 23. We'll explore what recovery looks like for people with serious menta...
The Way Out
09 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After 10 months at Washington State's largest psychiatric hospital, Adam Aurand is discharged onto the streets of downtown Seattle — ejected int...
Opening
02 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the middle of the last century, a movement to free patients from state-run psychiatric hospitals swept the U.S. This movement — deinstitution...
Nostalgia
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After Carrie Davidson learned that her great-grandmother died in a psychiatric hospital, she spent years tracking down details of her life there. Was ...
Against Their Will
19 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Across the U.S., efforts are underway to make it easier to involuntarily commit people to psychiatric hospitals. It's a reaction to the sight of serio...
Churn
12 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Heidi Aurand has watched her son Adam spiral from one psychiatric crisis to the next for about eight years, bouncing between emergency rooms, jails, a...
Introducing Lost Patients
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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