New federal order aims to fast track review of psychedelic drug treatments

Getting drugs off the street is not seeking treatment. Ketamine therapy isn't just "here do some ketamine"...it's a theraputic process involving therapy(hence the name). As someone who has done a lot of "street" psychedelics, and has also lived in poverty most of my life - I get it. It's frustrating and I agree that it shouldn't be so expensive, that the American healthcare system is fucked; and I would prefer if it was at least covered by insurance because of how much I've seen it help people. However, that doesn't make it right to assume false equivalencies in your arguments.

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By fast tracking, it doesn't mean that they're going to necessarily cut corners and provide the drugs without the research. Fast trucking in this context means that they're going to funnel money towards these drugs so that the research can occur. It's hard to do research without adequate financial support. By fast tracking it and giving some 50 million or what have you, that money can then be used to facilitate the research to get them to the clinical stage and then to patients faster. Without that, then there be less money which means less research which would mean a slower progression to that patient stage. Of course it's the Trump era so I can really speak to safeguards, but generally speaking the United States does not approve medications without the science and testing to back it. The fast tracking by funneling money just helps get to that stage quicker, but doesn't mean that the research is less thorough.

Because they work, it's been known they work for a while now, so that is not longer the purpose of the research, people have been using them on their own and therefore the individual experience has no scientific value so maybe that is problem that can be solved by bringing this in to a control environment and I would say the rush is necessary due to a mental health crisis with a side kick of suicides, so any thing that can help stop that is a step in the right direction.

Because there are so many of us resistant to or who can’t take current treatments such as SSRI’s. We are dying while we wait for them. I’m not saying that as an appeal to emotion, I’m being extremely factual. We do need guardrails and oversight in case something *does* go wrong, quality and dose control, and information about harm reduction and contraindications, before it is released to the general public. That doesn’t mean all harm can be prevented or that we should even try to; treatments of last resort are called that for a reason. It’s a balance of preventing harm to self, harm to others, harm to society, and a hefty dose of patient centered, informed consent care and autonomy. Unfortunately, that makes the middle men and companies also drug dealing profiteers because of how the field of medicine is structured in the US. “Move fast, break stuff” has a human death toll. Just look at what’s happening with AI and Meta, and that’s just “digital drugs”. At the same time, human life spans and development stages are time limited. Delays or restriction can also cost lives, so there shouldn’t be *unncessary* ones at the cost of “politics”. Look at what’s happening in trans medicine for that perspective, or disability poverty. It is a complex issue, and I say this as a former psychonaut who checked out the psychadelic industry in Colorado first hand. Psychedelics saved my life, and have had lasting effects on my conditions including severe, catatonic PTSD and addiction. However, like many, I came into them in a grey area without true clinical support, and that lack of support and oversight did its own damage despite education from places like Dance Safe. And I see what the unregulated Delta8 is doing. I really do not think we will see vast improvements in this field until such things are all available by prescription without stigma and as legitimate medication, but also have universal healthcare and access. It doesn’t work without both, just makes it a class based system of access and expense.