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Today, Explained

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🗓️ 9 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The mental health startup Cerebral benefited from pandemic-era changes to federal telehealth laws. But its easy-to-get prescriptions for tightly regulated stimulants — heavily promoted on social media — have sparked a Department of Justice investigation. This episode was produced by Tori Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Big tech wants to help with your telephone,
0:03.8	with your transportation, with your food delivery,
0:06.5	with your entertainment, with your photos,
0:08.1	with your news, with your blood.
0:11.4	That didn't go very well.
0:12.9	You scrazed Theranos founder and CEO,
0:15.0	found guilty on four of 11 counts in her landmark
0:18.6	Silicon Valley fraud case, with your brain.
0:22.3	In the case of cerebral, that's also not going very well.
0:25.6	Making this late-night video as a general PSA
0:27.8	to anyone who was thinking about joining
0:29.8	cerebral, do not walk, but run.
0:34.9	Adderall via Instagram, the rise and sort of
0:38.7	a stumbling fall of cerebral, coming up on today's point.
1:09.7	My name is Ralph Winkler.
1:13.2	I'm a reporter at the Wall Street Journal.
1:15.3	And I'm Sean Ramisverum, host today,
1:17.2	explained from Vox.
1:18.3	Ralph is here to tell us about cerebral.
1:21.7	Cerebral is an online mental health company
1:24.4	that after launching two short years ago,
1:27.7	January 2020 has exploded to a $5 billion valuation,
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