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Mark Baxter

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
958 total appearances

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Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

In Switzerland, actually, they've got a special access scheme where they can apply to do that on a case-by-case basis.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And so they do do a little bit of that, but they're fairly kind of quiet about it and small scale.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

In America, it's not legal at all.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And their equivalent of the TGA, they call the Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, has rejected the application to bring that into legal treatment thus far.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

They're asking for another clinical trial, perhaps.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So they're in the late stages of seeing if they can make it an approved treatment.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So it might be a few more years away in America.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

With using mushrooms or psilocybin, there are a few states in America that have legalized that for use in registered clinics.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So Oregon is a state that's done that.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

Colorado is a state that's done that.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And in some other states, they've decriminalized the recreational use.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

But there is no nationwide treatment.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

for any of these substances.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And in fact, under federal law in America, you know, these substances are still illegal.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

State laws are different.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

And so they've got a funny system in America where sometimes the state laws are different than the federal laws and they can kind of create a situation where they can provide a treatment that's not actually legal federally.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So it's all a little bit of a mess in America at the moment.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

So they're still working it out.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

Yeah.

Mind Your Being Podcast
#22 Early Experiences, PTSD & Depression: Emerging Paths to Healing | Mark Baxter

Lots of people advocating in different states for different treatment programs within their state legislature.