Neurodiversity and Psychedelics Decriminalization
A focus on furthering neurodiversity could allow the psychedelics decriminalization movement to gain broader public support.
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Read more: Psychedelics Helped Me Reclaim My Life and Push to Change Drug Laws Psychedelics Helped Me Reclaim My Life and Push to Change Drug Laws
I am not the usual protagonist you’d imagine as an advocate for psychedelics. But I had a psychedelic experience that changed my life.
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Read more: Psychedelics and America: A Digital Symposium Psychedelics and America: A Digital Symposium
This digital symposium for the Petrie-Flom Center’s Bill of Health blog explores the role psychedelics may play in America’s future.
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Read more: As Cities Decriminalize Psychedelics, Law Enforcement Should Step Back As Cities Decriminalize Psychedelics, Law Enforcement Should Step Back
Psychedelics may fill the growing need for innovative psychiatric drugs. Some cities, dissatisfied with the U.S. war on drugs, are decriminalizing them.
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Read more: How COVID-19 Could Drive Improvements in Care Facilities (Part II) How COVID-19 Could Drive Improvements in Care Facilities (Part II)
As the facts surrounding the response of care facilities to the pandemic become clearer, it is evident that regulation and enforcement should be expanded.
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Read more: How COVID-19 Could Drive Improvements in Care Facilities (Part I) How COVID-19 Could Drive Improvements in Care Facilities (Part I)
In this first installment we assess the centrality of care facilities to the COVID-19 pandemic and outline the infection risks for residents and workers.
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Read more: Psychiatrists’ Liability for Patient’s Violence Against Other People: Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Inpatient-Outpatient Distinction Psychiatrists’ Liability for Patient’s Violence Against Other People: Washington Supreme Court Abolishes the Inpatient-Outpatient Distinction
By Alex Stein In a recent decision, Volk v. DeMeerleer, 386 P.3d 254 (Wash. 2016), the Washington Supreme Court relaxed the “control” prerequisite for psychiatrists’ duty to protect third parties against violent patients. The Court made this decision in a case involving a psychiatric patient who murdered his girlfriend and her nine-year old son and then committed suicide (after…
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Read more: Lost Chances to Recover: An Elaboration Lost Chances to Recover: An Elaboration
By Alex Stein An important development of the lost-chance doctrine recently took place in Rash v. Providence Health & Services, — P.3d —- (Wash.App.Div.3 2014). An 82-year old patient with a critical heart condition was hospitalized to undergo surgery. The patient’s heart condition made her death inevitable, but she managed to prolong her life with the…
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Read more: The Battle of Privileges The Battle of Privileges
By Alex Stein When a patient files a malpractice suit against a doctor, she waives the evidentiary privilege that protects the information pertaining to her treatment by the doctor. This information extends to all communications between the patient and the doctor, the patient’s medical history, diagnosis, treatment, and medical records. The patient’s waiver of the privilege…