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A select group of doctors, social workers and fungi experts will now spend the next couple of years creating Oregon’s new psilocybin-assisted therapy program.
Experts have now been chosen for one of the hottest committee assignments in Oregon.
A select group of doctors, social workers and fungi experts will now spend the next couple of years creating Oregon’s new psilocybin-assisted therapy program.
When voters passed Measure 109 – to allow the active ingredient of hallucinogenic mushrooms to be used in therapy – they gave the state two years to develop a program.
The new board will be charged with following science to create Oregon’s regulatory framework for psilocybin. Clinical studies, including research from Johns Hopkins University, UCLA and NYU, have shown promising results using such treatment methods for people suffering from anxiety, depression and PTSD.