New paper alert, "Setting, context and the regulatory atmospheres of psychedelic medicine" in International Journal of Drug Policy @ijdrugpolicy -- a collaboration between Alex Gearin @alex_gearin (HKU Medicine), I. Glenn Cohen @CohenProf (Harvard Law) and Albert Garcia-Romeu (Hopkins Medicine). View open access: doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.202… Psychedelic medicines are sensitive to context and setting due to their special impacts on perception and cognition. In this interdisciplinary paper, the authors examine settings and contexts of psychedelic medicine use as the "building blocks of felt atmospheres" to examine how new policy experiments in the United States and Australia are regulating new legal pathways. Regulatory atmospheres, as the authors call them, refer to how policy shapes interpersonal, sensory, and affective conditions of psychedelic use -- including by defining the who, what, and where of legal pathways -- but also how law and prohibition continue to impact underground and traditional atmospheres of psychedelic use in diffuse and uneven ways. From the paper's introduction: "To trace divergent possibilities for psychedelic medicine, this paper proceeds in several steps. First, it outlines how scientific experiments in setting and context stage different psychedelic atmospheres as they aim to better understand risk and efficacy. Second, it explores how this has come up against a biopolitics of medical regulation that seeks to minimize psychotherapy in favor of pharmacotherapy model. Third, it analyzes differences in setting and context codified by policy experiments in Colorado and Oregon in the United States and the Authorized Prescriber scheme in Australia. Then, it shows how law continues to cast a shadow across a wider ecology of use, where many settings are affected by prohibition in underground and traditional contexts, revealing a haunting effect of regulatory atmospheres. By paying attention to psychedelic settings, the article shows how ideas about what counts as risk and about what counts as healing—chemical, psychotherapeutic alliance, environment, culture or more—can reflect the ontological and regulatory conditions that bring them into being. @hku_mehu @HKUCMEL @hkumed @Harvard_Law @PetrieFlom @JHPsychedelics @HopkinsMedicine #PsychedelicMedicine #PsychedelicScience #PsychedelicTherapy #PsychedelicAssistedTherapy #DrugPolicy #PsychedelicPolicy #DrugLaw #HealthPolicy #Prohibition #SetAndSetting #TherapeuticContext #PlantMedicine #HealingEnvironment #MedicalAnthropology #MedicalHumanities #Bioethics #HealthLaw

Psychedelics 🍄 Spiritual? Healing? Recreational? Same substance—different intention, context, and outcome. Meaning isn’t in the molecule. It’s in how, why, and where it’s used. #Psychedelics #Consciousness #MentalHealth #Perspective #SetAndSetting

Sunset at Eleusis. 🌅 In this work, setting is everything. The environment, the nervous system, the intention. When the setting is right, the mind can finally let go and explore. This island was chosen for a reason. #SetAndSetting #ConsciousnessExploration

Sunset at Eleusis. 🌅 In this work, setting is everything. The environment, the nervous system, the intention. When the setting is right, the mind can finally let go and explore. This island was chosen for a reason. #SetAndSetting #ConsciousnessExploration

I’m on it, and had no idea. 60. Impossible to comprehend @setandsetting

Used to sing this song literally driving though Amarillo with kids en route to the Rocky Mountains. #setandsetting

🇫🇷🩺 En attendant la 3ème partie, suite de l'ITW du Dr @Addictolive dans @softsecrets_fr. ➡️ Au menu : #SetAndSetting, rôle de l'interdit, et comment la prohibition du #Cannabis influe sur la santé mentale et les habitudes de consommation des usagers.

Unlocking the Mind: The True Purpose of Psychedelics #Psychedelics #MindJourney #ConsciousnessExploration #MentalHealth #InnerExperience #SetAndSetting #Transcendence #SpiritualGrowth #PsychedelicTherapy #CulturalContext

Dry run for @ucsf #setandsetting study today. First dosing day = next week. carhartharrislab.com/studies…

We're thrilled to share that our beautiful new space is almost ready to welcome participants for our upcoming studies! At the heart of our work is the belief that set and setting are crucial to the psychedelic experience. #PsychedelicResearch #SetAndSetting #MentalHealth

NEW BLOG - How We Hold Space & Protect Our Psychedelic Therapy Clients✨ 🖇️Read it Here: eqnmt.co/post/holding-space-… --- 🌐 eqnmt.co . #psychedelicretreats #psychedelicscience #psychology #Psychologist #MentalHealth #mentalhealthmatters #ethneogens #setandsetting

It can be real horror also... #setandsetting

"As some studies have found that #ayahuasca does not improve #mentalhealth any more than a #placebo,it may be that the #ceremonialcontext rather than the #substance itself is responsible for the reported growth/improvement in mental health." #SetAndSetting madinamerica.com/2023/07/stu…

12. UNRAVELing the synergistic effects of #psilocybin and #environment on brain-wide immediate early gene expression in mice by @TheBorisLab & colleagues #psychedelics #geneexpression #setandsetting #context nature.com/articles/s41386-0…

I agree with the guidelines although after watching a UK show about #longevity and how a Greek Mediterranen community with a sunnier climate and fresher produce drank wine; IMHO #SetAndSetting may also apply to #alcohol. Most drink alcohol to destress which is counterintuitive.

Best not to mix #shrooms and tequila, folks You could end up having a royally crap time 🚽 #SparebyPrinceHarry #PrinceHarry #spare #setandsetting #magicmushrooms #psilocybin 🍄 vice.com/en/article/qjk9y5/p…

✨Join us on Thursday 1/26 at 3:00pm EST as guest speakers @billgpt and @momsupport discuss Internal Family Systems and explain how they use it to assess and optimize #setandsetting for ketamine assisted therapy. 🧠 Zoom link provided in our member calendar and Discord channel.

Safety is our top priority. Period. The medicines we work with are not to be taken lightly & do come with risks. That’s why each retreat participant undergoes a thorough health screening & vitals are monitored during every session. #psychedelictherapy #setandsetting #veterans

I'm so excited to be hosting the Journal Club for @ipnpsychedelics in the '22-'23 academic year 😀 Join me this Thursday to talk about Olson et al.'s paper, & bring your questions because Dr. Jay Olson is joining the discussion! #psychedelicstudies #psychedelics #setandsetting

US Pat App 17/604,610 “Treatment of Depression and Other Various Disorders with #Psilocybin” overly broad claims were amended 5 months after #PortaSophia filed a #USPTO third-party pre-issuance submission - all #setandsetting claims have been canceled  #WeSupportGoodPatents