🌿 Facing the end of life can bring immense distress. Could psychedelic therapy help ease the journey?

drugscience.org.uk/easing-end-of-life-distress-psychedelic-uk

@profjoneill.bsky.social, Laura Downey, & @profmq.bsky.social for @drugscience.bsky.social

#PalliativeCare #Psychedelics #DrugScience

The Dutch Medicines Evaluation Board will host a Pipeline Meeting on 5 Nov 2025, focusing on the regulatory development of psychedelics.

Pharmaceutical companies can apply to present and discuss psychedelic development challenges with Dutch regulators.
Deadline: 29 Aug tinyurl.com/meb-pipeline...

Pα+ Psychedelic Bulletin #207

- Lykos Rebrands to Resilient

- Pharma Pushes Back on Norway’s Ketamine Reimbursement Decision

- AbbVie-Gilgamesh Deal Viewed as Validation

- Psilocybin Rescheduling Petition Heads to HHS

- Much, much more...

psychedelicalpha.com/news/p%ce%b1...

🍄 Our new living systematic review and meta-analysis on psilocybin for depression is out. Here's what we found and the open science infrastructure we built to support it 🧪🧵
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Delighted to be part of this great new network at Birmingham, and quietly working on putting together a psychedelics and lived experience workshop as part of its activities!

Reframing Psychedelic Regulation: Tools, not Treatments

In this new article, we propose to regulate psychedelics as psychotherapeutic treatment tools rather than as treatments in their own right.

The use of anesthetics as treatment tools in surgery is a useful analogy.

Come and study an MSc in 'Psychǝdǝlics: Mind, Medicine, and Culture' at Exeter – now on-campus too. Here's a lovely new video of one of our students, Nina, speaking on her experience:

Texas passes nation’s first ibogaine research funding bill; Colorado’s first Natural Medicine client; and Psilocybin’s effects wane a year after dosing themicrodose.substack.com/p/texas-pass...

European Drug Report 2025: Trends and Developments now published. EUDA’s latest analysis of the drug situation in Europe. Focusing on illicit drug use, related harms and drug supply and key harm reduction interventions. - www.euda.europa.eu/publications...

‪👋Hi everyone! We are an interdisciplinary group of researchers from @unibirmingham.bsky.social working on the the legal, ethical, social, and other challenges relating to the therapeutic use of psychedelics (e.g. psilocybin & MDMA). #Psychedelics #PsychedelicResearch #MedicinesRegulation

Matt Zorn, the Government’s Former Adversary, Is Now Its Psychedelics Czar

Matt Zorn made his name suing federal agencies over cannabis and psychedelics policy. Now, he’s inside the system as Deputy General Counsel at HHS, with a psychedelics mandate.

psychedelicalpha.com/news/matt-zo...

New: We take a closer look at Gilgamesh's positive Phase 2a results of GM-2505 (aka bretisilocin, a serotonergic psychedelic) in major depressive disorder (MDD) & speak to company execs

The results should provide a welcome catalyst for the field.

psychedelicalpha.com/news/gilgame...

The WHO has issued a rapid communication on its forthcoming guideline on controlled medicines, on which PAREA participated as an external reviewer. tinyurl.com/who-gl-rc

Interesting (critical) take on my recent New Yorker piece on psychedelics and religion. | Substack substack.com/home/post/p-...

Delighted to have welcomed participants to Birmingham last week for our roundtable on Psychedelics & Regulatory Decision-making. V interesting & fruitful discussion with a range of perspectives. #Psychedelics #PsychedelicExperience #PsychedelicResearch #PsychedelicMedicine #MedicinesRegulation

Dispatch from Breaking Convention 2025: Part 2

Inside:

- Ethical dilemmas of giving psychedelics to young people

- Critical role of therapist selection,

- Female biology X psychedelics

- Pros/cons of non-hallucinogenic psychoplastogens

and more...

psychedelicalpha.com/news/dispatc...

Participate in the Global Psychedelic Survey 2025 (GPS 2025), a large global study on psychedelic use.

Sponsored by Uni of Michigan, closes May 16!

Win 1 of 15 $100 Amazon gift cards.

Take part: bit.ly/GPS2025-survey

#GPS2025 #PsychedelicResearch #GlobalSurvey