[From his two-story lab in University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Bryan Roth’s experiments are underway to remove the powerful hallucinogenic effects from psychedelic drugs… idea prompted a $27 million grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), a secretive research organization within the U.S. military… everyone from the Department of…
…letter from the Health and Human Services Department discloses the anticipated FDA approval of MDMA and psilocybin treatments… the May [2022] correspondence, not shared publicly until now, is the clearest indication yet that top officials are preparing for the approval of psychedelic drugs – demonized for decades after former President Richard Nixon sought means to…
According to Lane County Public Health and Eugene Police, the community is seeing an increase in street drugs containing fentanyl – a powerful, illicit opioid with high risk for overdose. “We have seen fentanyl contamination in cheap, counterfeit pills sold as common medications such as oxycodone, Adderall, or Xanax,” the department said. “We also have…
…two amendments passed by the House represent… alliance between progressives and conservatives. …amendment added MDMA and psilocybin to the list of substances authorized for an official study on opioid alternatives… Rep. Ocasio-Cortez & …amendment addresses the medical research’s funding, as it creates a Pentagon grant program for certain eligible government entities to conduct research and…
Bipartisan and bicameral congressional lawmakers filed companion bills… to clarify that federal “Right to Try” (RTT) laws give seriously ill patients access to Schedule I drugs, including marijuana and psychedelics like psilocybin and MDMA. This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Right to Try Clarification Act’’. A BILL To clarify that the Federal Right to…
“Being on disability, I can’t afford [$1,500] for three rounds of therapy… I’m 10 years into being relatively disabled. If I can get even a tenth of my former life back, that would be something,” she said. McKenney said if she wanted to, she could get [psilocybe] from other channels… request for a judicial review……
Thornton’s situation is symbolic of the crossroads that characterizes the contemporary psychedelic landscape in the United States. In Michigan, right next door to Indiana where Thornton lives, three cities have decriminalized psychedelics for personal use… her experimentation with psilocybin has come at an inconceivable cost. On August 1st [2022], she will appear in court and…
“…we will vigorously enforce our patents when it comes to commercial competitors,” said Christian Angermayer of Compass Pathways… on [synthetic psilocybin Polymorph A] Comp 360… [although] their IP is actually a lot narrower than it otherwise would have been had that challenge to the patent not have gone through… the Polymorph A patent for Compass…
Hamilton Morris will be advising COMPASS on research related to new psychedelic compounds that could be developed into therapies in areas of unmet mental health need. Mr Morris said: “For over a decade, Jason and I have worked together studying the chemistry and pharmacology of psychedelics.” Original Article (Compass):Hamilton Morris joins COMPASS pathways to research…
The Investigator Initiated trial is funded by a near $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, making this the first time in 50 years the U.S. government has funded a study evaluating a psychedelic compound for therapeutic use. The recently cleared grant-funded trial is led by Principal Investigator (PI) Dr. Matthew Johnson, Ph.D.,…
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