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Introductory Editorial — Critical Psychedelic Studies: Correcting the Hype

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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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Could Self-Operated Assisted Suicide Devices Be Coming to a Town near You?

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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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Responding to the Comeback of He Jiankui, ‘The CRISPR Baby Scientist’: Lessons from Criminal Justice Theory

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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.