Ira Byock
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629 appearances
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first heard Jun 2019
last heard Jul 2025
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We track people with standard
quality of life, depression scales, anxiety scales, demoralization scales, spiritual scales, and play this out.
And I think that's the study that needs to needs to be done, frankly.
I've long thought that.
And some of our thought leaders in our field, I I think, thankfully agree with me.
To to date, as as hopeful and exciting as the studies have been, they have been s based in psychiatry with significant
definable psychiatric pathology.
I hate say I hate that term, but there it is.
Well, we have to get FDA approval, but it's turning out the FDA is um has shown itself to be willing to do what's needed.
And I think some of what we've talked about in the perspective of we don't have a lot else to offer.
Yeah.
The serotonin uh selective serotonin uh reuptake inhibitors, the you know, methylphenidates, um th they're good
And take a long you know the me you know, the the SSRIs take a long time and you have to s recycle them and blah blah.
And I do think, you know, there's a general impression that there's a backdrop of allowing people to end their lives.
says.
So I don't I don't know anything about the DEA, but I think the FDA is is listening to reason.
And uh and the other thing that we should mention, just for the listeners, we haven't mentioned the right to try laws in thirty-seven or thirty-eight states, the uh expanded access provisions and compassionate use provisions of the FDA, where people can get access to pre approved or unapproved medications sometimes if there's nothing left within the approval.
line to offer them and they're going to they're facing the end of their lives.
Well, I think our patients kind of fit in that category.
And so there's that that has kind of softened the regulatory environment to a certain extent.
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