Can Psychedelics Help Save America?
Amid a fractured political landscape, a pandemic, and a reckoning with the country’s racist past, psychedelics may offer some hope for healing.
Criminal Law
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Read more: The False Promise of City-Wide Psilocybin Decriminalization The False Promise of City-Wide Psilocybin Decriminalization
While city-wide decriminalization efforts make psilocybin a “low priority” for law enforcement, state and federal agencies provide no such guarantees.
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Read more: Telemedicine is No Cure for Fraud and Abuse Telemedicine is No Cure for Fraud and Abuse
A rise in suspect practices has been accompanied by a concomitant escalation of DOJ enforcement, sending a clear signal to would-be fraudulent actors.
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Read more: Black Men Carry the Cost of Police Violence Black Men Carry the Cost of Police Violence
About 1.5 million Black men are missing from daily life because of health challenges, economic instability, and over-policing.
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Read more: COVID-19 and Women in the US Criminal Legal System COVID-19 and Women in the US Criminal Legal System
Health and economic inequities exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harm women involved in the criminal legal system.
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Read more: The Double Bind of Medicine for Racial Minorities The Double Bind of Medicine for Racial Minorities
BIPOC are either subject to hypervisibility, or medical erasure, where their medical needs are left unaddressed and ignored.
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Read more: School Discipline is a Public Health Crisis School Discipline is a Public Health Crisis
Too often, policies and practices in schools that create and compound health inequities are narrated as falling outside health law and policy.
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Read more: Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships
Considering the cross-cutting nature of racism as a social determinant of health, medical-legal partnerships can and should address it directly.
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Read more: Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health
Government and public health officials must aggressively work to end structural racism and revise laws that create racial inequalities.
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Read more: Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium
Today, medicine and the health care system embody discourses of power that rival the law. Will these discourses inevitably serve to oppress BIPOC?
