Bill of Health

JANUARY 29, 2024

In my experience of working with Psymposia since 2019 , there has been a sea change in the broader field’s reception of critical perspectives on psychedelic medicine over the past year. As each contribution emphasizes, these oversights have ethical implications for research design, informed consent processes, and public communication.

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Bill of Health

MARCH 8, 2023

In 2019, a Chinese court found that Dr. He and his collaborators had “ forged ethical review documents and misled doctors into unknowingly implanting gene-edited embryos into two women ” in deliberate violation of national regulations on biomedical research and medical ethics.

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Bill of Health

DECEMBER 20, 2022

And in 2019, the Justice Department asserted that the FDA does not even have the authority to regulate such drugs since “ the FDCA’s regulatory framework for ‘drugs’ and ‘devices’ cannot sensibly be applied ” to articles having an intended use not traditionally regulated by FDA (i.e.,

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