OPEN COMMENT PERIOD - SAMHSA seeks detailed comments on its Harm Reduction Framework. Check it out and let them know what you think! What's missing? What's unclear? Share your thoughts! Deadline: August 14th 5pm EST samhsa.gov/find-help/harm…

After Nation intern @luc_pete reporting yesterday, the NIH has reversed its decision to block their fellows from unionizing with the UAW. The two parties will move toward an election in the coming weeks: bit.ly/3DNeLQ2

Postdocs Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have voted by 91% to authorize our Bargaining Committee to call a strike if circumstances justify.

WE WON OUR UNION!

We just concluded the inaugural Hopkins-Oxford Psychedelic Ethics (HOPE) working group at University of Oxford! A diverse group of scientists & scholars in psychedelic bioethics discussed issues & paths forward docs.google.com/document/d/1dU… (Organized by Brian D. Earp, Ph.D., Eddie Talks Drugs,& me)

Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center Uehiro Oxford Institute Oxford Psychiatry I. Glenn Cohen Holly Fernandez Lynch LoriBruce Penn Penn LDI Nicolas Langlitz The New School Sean Clancy Law Emerge Law Group Gokul Raj @chrisletheby Molly Maloof @DrKeishaRay @BlackBioethics The American Journal of Bioethics @PhoebeFriesen Katherine Cheung Kyle Patch Paul Appelbaum Columbia Psychiatry Tehseen Noorani University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Tactogen Fireside Project manvir singh UC Davis Sandeep Nayak NIH NYU Bioethics New York University Kyle Patch of NIH (collaborating w/ @jhpsychedelics) “Transformative Experiences and Enhanced Consent: An Analysis of Informed Consent Forms” (Kyle is applying to law schools this cycle – he is a brilliant young scholar & any law school would be lucky to have him as a student!)

Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center Uehiro Oxford Institute Oxford Psychiatry I. Glenn Cohen Holly Fernandez Lynch LoriBruce Penn Penn LDI Nicolas Langlitz The New School Sean Clancy Law Emerge Law Group Gokul Raj @chrisletheby Molly Maloof @DrKeishaRay @BlackBioethics The American Journal of Bioethics @PhoebeFriesen Katherine Cheung Kyle Patch Paul Appelbaum Columbia Psychiatry Tehseen Noorani University of Auckland | Waipapa Taumata Rau Tactogen Fireside Project manvir singh UC Davis Sandeep Nayak NIH NYU Bioethics New York University Yale University Neşe Devenot, PhD 🍉 (@NeseLSD.bsky.social) Eddie Talks Drugs @WEH_Oxford UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy Penn Carey Law School University of Zurich Ole Martin Moen As usual, many of the best conversations took place outside of the sessions ☺️

George Dawson Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Psychedelic Research Center Uehiro Oxford Institute Oxford Psychiatry I. Glenn Cohen Holly Fernandez Lynch LoriBruce Penn Penn LDI Nicolas Langlitz The New School Sean Clancy Law Emerge Law Group Gokul Raj @chrisletheby Molly Maloof @DrKeishaRay @BlackBioethics The American Journal of Bioethics @PhoebeFriesen Katherine Cheung Kyle Patch Paul Appelbaum Columbia Psychiatry We are writing up a systematic review of all consent documents used in classic psychedelic research in the past twenty years - an effort led by Kyle Patch. It should be out in several months

Incredibly productive workshop. Huge shout to organizers David B. Yaden Eddie Talks Drugs Brian D. Earp, Ph.D. and to Uehiro Oxford Institute for hosting! Looking forward to more collaboration and idea sharing!

Had a great time discussing a new project on consent language in psilocybin trials. Stay tuned for the write up!

Now in press! Consent GPT: Is It Ethical to Delegate Procedural Consent to Conversational AI? buff.ly/3Ex1V8M

Fourteen years ago, when the big three automakers were struggling to stay afloat, my administration and the American people stepped in to support them. So did the auto workers in the UAW who sacrificed pay and benefits to help get the companies back on their feet. Now that our

The largest healthcare worker strike in U.S. history is happening right now! RT to stand with healthcare workers across the nation. #United4All #SolidaritySeason

Physicians-in-training can unionize, but how often do they? And what happens when they try? I pored over thousands of records to investigate these questions. Today, that investigation was published JAMA . Short 🧵.

can’t overstate how huge this is. i am incredibly proud of everyone that helped make this happen and excited for the future- for fellows at NIH and higher ed everywhere!

NEW: Nearly 98% of early-career researchers at NIH voted to form a union - the biggest federal union to form in more than a decade. NIH Fellows United-UAW, representing 5,000+ fellows, is calling for better pay and working conditions. Read more in nature: nature.com/articles/d4158…

I love all my organizer friends, they have a car with 300,000 miles on it full of red bulls, candy wrappers, tape and pens, they are getting cell phone calls 25 hours a day, they can sleep in any position anytime, and they are always muttering about structure tests.

Article published by CPCR grad student Katherine Cheung (Katherine Cheung) and faculty David Yaden (David B. Yaden) as well as Brian Earp (Brian D. Earp, Ph.D.) and Kyle Patch (Kyle Patch) explores “psychedelic ethical exceptionalism” – questioning if these therapies truly require unique