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Beyond Medicalization: Psychedelic Therapy and the Promise of Community-Based Healing

Mad in America

House Bill 25-1063 , approved in April 2025, represents one such effort, revealing the intersection of commercial interests, intellectual property concerns, and the pharmaceutical model’s influence on psychedelic policy. The container of community support becomes as important as the medicine itself.

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Robert Whitaker Answers Reader Questions on Pharma Marketing and Psychiatric Drugs

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For Part 2, we will be covering reader questions on pharmaceutical marketing and issues with psychiatric treatments including psychiatric drugs and electroconvulsive therapy. So even their self-judgment is not proof of the merits of the drugs, even for themselves, because they lack knowing what would have been possible for them.