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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. This one-size-fits-all approach reflects the reductionist tendencies of conventional psychiatry.

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One Person’s Journey from Celebrity Medical Model Advocate to Skeptic: An Interview with Rose Cartwright

Mad in America

I have had a similarly educative but terrifying experience. Rose: Educations are like that. You write about how people go into therapeutic psychedelic experiences with expectations that “I will find my trauma”. You write that you worry about how psychedelics are getting co-opted by pharmaceutical industries.