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I'm worried that the industry is stampeding into lionizing and monetizing another thing that ultimately statistics say may not be working better than placebo and has harmful side effects, but 20-50% of the population is on and is also responsible for a large percentage of health care spending.

SSRIs are that. Opiates are almost that (for long term pain management.) Statins are suspicious (and also held up as miracles by paid experts suggesting that we might add both them and lithium to the water supply like fluoride.)

I see a future of bare clinic rooms filled with beds, and on each bed someone who is being intravenously fed psychedelics (that are still illegal to grow, or take without a doctor's signoff and a nurse's supervision.) Each of them paying a $10 copay, while the facility bills the government and insurance $500/hr.

It'll be like the methadone clinic model, where we decided that to get people off heroin, we would addict them to a drug far harder to quit than heroin.

edit: I wish we would simply decriminalize psychedelics, and not do this thing again where something gets captured by a couple of oligarchs and sends their worth into the stratosphere, while every media outlet is fanning the flames. Really fucking dreading seeing the psychedelic (completely industry-funded) patients' rights organizations representatives getting interviewed while crying on tv about how party/politician X doesn't take depression seriously and is trying to genocide them by not letting five year olds trip.