Ira Byock
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629 appearances
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first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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So um with a number of articles coming out in the New Yorker and Harper's, new research from Johns Hopkins and uh UCLA Harbor and NYU.
I thought I haven't been involved, I've been uh doing other things in medicine, but this is something I could contribute to the field of of hospice and palliative medicine by saying, Look, there's people suffering.
This stuff is actually real.
It's really time to take this stuff seriously.
So
No, this is really serious stuff.
No question about these are potentially really dangerous drugs.
They need to be used in a highly prepared, safe environment with people who know what they're doing.
However
when they are used in a way that you're screening for people who are very at higher than usual risk of having an adverse reaction, where you're actually preparing those people and guiding them through it, these drugs are very, very safe.
So, yes, this is this is not something that people should take lightly.
It's not a recreational drug by any means.
But this is really serious medicine that can respond to significant needs that our field has, but frankly, more importantly, that the people, patients and families we serve have.
Yes, so we're talking about uh things that were initially plant based, uh psilocybin mushrooms, uh ammonita muscara mushrooms, those sorts of things.
There are a number of psychedelic chemicals in the environment, if you will, if you know how to look or where to look for them, I guess.
Right.
And and yes, right.
And then there's the toad skin.
Uh but we won't get to that probably.
But um but uh uh synth synthetically, uh the the main one is L S D, uh, which has an experience very similar to the psilocybin experience, a little longer in duration, but very similar.
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