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Are psychedelics actually medicine?: The Story
The vote that sank a revolution August 2024. The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. Lykos Therapeutics — formerly MAPS, a nonprofit that spent $135 million and three decades getting MDMA through trials — watched its Phase 3 data sink.... I start tugging on one string and it pulls on much greater themes, but some basic strategic things might be: access to education…whatever kind of education someone wants ability to make mistakes and not have it ruin your life– more safety nets resolution to the opiod crises &... - ballz2dwallz...
Well it’s not her policy, it’s Biden’s. Not a fan of that not-so-subtle trick. I did look at a graph of illegal immigrant crossings, and it’s WAY up since Biden took office, although it’s unclear to me how much Biden’s specific policies have impacted crossings, which I think... What does sensible drug policy look like?: Harm reductionists
A dead person never recovers The needle exchange I worked at handed out naloxone and reversed overdoses in the parking lot. A man we revived four times got clean on the fifth year.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: Prohibitionists
The legal drug that did the most damage Here is the fact that should make everyone slow down: the deadliest drug epidemic in American history did not come from a cartel. It came from OxyContin — legal, FDA-approved, doctor-prescribed, marketed as safe.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: Decriminalization advocates
Portugal, twenty years on In 2001 Portugal was losing people to heroin at one of the worst rates in Europe. It decriminalized possession of everything and moved drug use from the courts to health panels.... What does sensible drug policy look like?: The Story
The experiment that got reversed In February 2021, Oregon stopped arresting people for possessing drugs — any drug, including heroin and meth. Measure 110 was the most progressive drug law in American history, passed by 58 percent of voters, watched by the world.... - Mark Burns...
The sentence that stopped me in this piece was: "The most promising psychiatric candidate in a generation failed not because it did not work but because the system could not figure out how to evaluate it." That's not a sentence about psychedelics.... - KrownKlown...
Are psychedelics actually medicine?: Prohibitionists
"This time it’s different" Purdue told us OxyContin was safe. Merck told us Vioxx was safe. Theranos told us a finger-prick could replace a lab. In each case, the evidence was promising, the enthusiasm genuine, the financial incentives enormous.... Are psychedelics actually medicine?: Prohibitionists
"This time it’s different" Purdue told us OxyContin was safe. Merck told us Vioxx was safe. Theranos told us a finger-prick could replace a lab. In each case, the evidence was promising, the enthusiasm genuine, the financial incentives enormous.... Are psychedelics actually medicine?: The Story
The vote that sank a revolution August 2024. The FDA rejected MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD. Lykos Therapeutics — formerly MAPS, a nonprofit that spent $135 million and three decades getting MDMA through trials — watched its Phase 3 data sink.... - yurio...