Dr. Drew Pinsky

Maybe it'll occur to me in a second.

Yeah, what you like is a very different topic than who you are and what your identity is.

And it's interesting to me.

I was just thinking for a second here about hallucinogenics and their popularity.

One of the great concerns I have about hallucinogenics is it changes people's character and identity.

That's a profound thing.

And we just go, oh, yeah, they seem happier now.

No, no, no, no, no, no.

They were not in control of these changes.

A chemical changed their brain and that changed who they are.

And that whole area of identity needs to be highly protected from anything that takes over the process from the patient.

I'm not saying the patient has to be affirmed all the time, but the patient has to be involved in the process where they're constantly part of it rather than it being taken over by a person with an ideology or

or a pill or a chemical that affects identity.

It's a real serious problem that very few people kind of dig into right now.

You were in front of Congress.

Tell me about that.

Yeah, in medicine, we call that risk-reward.

You have to always inform consent, risk-reward.

We did none of that.

And Francis Collins said that publicly.