First ethics at MAPS in question and now Australia’s Mind Medicine look to have some serious integrity issues too
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Psychedelics, medicine and ethics has always been a tricky thing and we’re suprised (or maybe not) that those who have held themselves up to be the paragons of perfection in the field over the past few years,  have in fact been either arrogant, dumb or lazy when it comes to managing ethics at their organisations. Personally I think it is a combination of all 3 and hubris will always come back to bite you in the ass. First it was MAPS Psychedelic medicine group (MAPS) investigating a board member accused of financial elder abuse Psychedelics Today Podcast Interviews Rick Doblin . Conversation Tackles MAPS Research Methadology & Issues Of Abuse In Therapy   Now in Australia, national broadcaster the ABC has made public, a can of worms at local version of MAPS,  Mind Medicine.     The psychedelic opera singer and banker was always great pitch to get the press interested when things were going swimmingly.  

  Unfortunately for the Australian psychedelic power couple, they will now discover to their chagrin that the same pitch that  made for such good press will do the same for the less kosher aspects of their activity and unfortunately for the rest of us interested in a forward narrative for psychedelic medicine in Australia.     The ABC aired their weekly investigative  4 corners show last night with some very serious allegations. Here’s the precis to the show Reporter Elise Worthington also investigates the dark side of this form of therapy where disturbing cases of abuse and malpractice are emerging in both clinical trials and the underground. “There’s everything from people being dosed without their consent, to people being encouraged to sleep with practitioners in exchange for services, to people being pressured to participate in group contexts, and so-called rituals that…

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