Ira Byock

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GeriPal - A Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine Podcast · Psychedelics: Podcast with Ira Byock · 6 Jun 2019 podcast

commonly speak to an enhanced sense of meaning, uh an intensity of life, uh, moving closer to people that they love, all of that.

So at very least as a late stage therapy, and maybe in the process in the next 10 years, we'll find that there is other earlier roles for this or people situations in which we can predict that this has a an important

therapeutic role.

I know that sounds too good to be true, but that frankly is the case.

I'm not saying that at all.

You're absolutely right.

I think my that paper that we're talking about opens by saying, please be cautious because these are highly vulnerable people.

So um I would be saying, let's get some further research first, uh but I I wanna be utterly honest here.

First, if I I'm I'm a fierce advocate for patients.

Yeah.

But I also respect professional boundaries.

But you know, if if this was my mother or father, right, and they were demoralized and I had access to psilocybin, I'd be lying if I said

with my experience and being able to to guide them that I wouldn't consider them doing that.

Particularly, and here's where I can even generalize, say it particularly personally, but we have seven states, including the states w the state of California, where it's legally possible for physicians to write lethal prescriptions.

And if you look at the reasons why people are choosing to have lethal prescriptions and and to hasten their own death.

It is by and large feeling helpless and hopeless, feeling a burden.

Life is not worth living, right?

This is exactly the the sorts of experiences that these drugs uh have shown in pretty well done studies that they can change dramatically.

I I agree.

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