Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research (Patreon)

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2019-09-17 22:33:26

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2023-10

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This is a very nice article from the New York Times (with a healthy dose of skepticism in the later half which is always appreciated for balance). Exciting that we now have a well funded, full time dedicated center for psychedelic research, and this is actually the SECOND such center created in 2019! Imperial College London launched what is thought to be the world’s first such center in April, with some $3.5 million from private sources. Celebrity/author/investor Tim Ferris was involved in the funding of the Hopkins center and has also recently announced his intent to devote his time and energy to psychedelic research.

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Johns Hopkins Opens New Center for Psychedelic Research

The research center, with $17 million from donors, aims to give "psychedelic medicine" a long-sought foothold in the scientific establishment. Since childhood, Rachael Petersen had lived with an unexplainable sense of grief that no drug or talk therapy could entirely ease.