PT563 – Why Psychedelic Research is Booming: Current Trends and Hurdles, with Floris Wolswijk
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, David interviews Floris Wolswijk: senior project manager at Delphi; co-founder of FLO coaching; and founder of Blossom, an online informational hub collecting psychedelic courses, trials, companies, and over 2000 categorized research articles.
When Wolswijk began Blossom, he was barely able to fill a weekly newsletter, and now he's adding a new study nearly every day, perfectly illustrating the exponential growth in psychedelic research. He talks about why so much research is happening (and why more isn't), the trends he's seen, the benefit in research changing people's minds, and what he hopes for in the future. What can the research community learn from existing real world evidence, and how can retreat centers and underground communities contribute?
He also discusses:
- What culture is like in the Netherlands, where psilocybin truffles are legal
- Drug development and the possibilities of adjusting existing molecules
- What we can learn from the Lykos and FDA situation
- The economics of psychedelics and how insurance will likely be the next big conversation
- His work with FLO coaching, and how coaching, acceptance and commitment therapy, and psilocybin can work together
and more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello there. Welcome to Psychedelics today. My name is David Drapkin and I am interviewing Flores Voltaugge in this episode. He's based in the Netherlands. |
| 0:18.0 | You probably have heard of him through Blossom, where he produces |
| 0:21.2 | incredible data reports and research analytics on the psychedelic space. He also does consultancy |
| 0:27.7 | work with Delphi and coaching and guiding work in the Netherlands with Flow. Before we jump into |
| 0:33.3 | that and I do a proper intro, I want to share some big news that this is my final podcast |
| 0:39.9 | with psychedelics today. I'm going to really miss it. I honestly have loved this experience |
| 0:45.6 | and interviewing inspirational people from all over the world. It's been really meaningful. I've |
| 0:50.2 | been lucky enough to be part of disseminating all of this information around the world to millions of people. |
| 0:56.4 | And when I joined psychedelics today, three and a half years ago, I never thought I'd host this podcast. |
| 1:01.8 | I'd always wanted to give it a try. And yeah, thank you massively, Carl and Joe, for giving me the opportunity and trusting me with the mic. |
| 1:10.1 | I've probably interviewed 40 or 50 |
| 1:12.4 | people now and it's been a massive gift and honour to enter into these intimate conversations |
| 1:18.5 | with truly incredible guests. And I want to give huge credit to everyone in the psychedelics |
| 1:24.3 | today team, the folks behind the scenes for immense dedication and creativity |
| 1:28.5 | working in a really complex field that's still emerging out of the shadows. And kudos to |
| 1:34.2 | psychedelics today as an organization for being OG and stepping into the psychedelic circus before it was |
| 1:40.6 | cool. As for me, well, I'm returning to my roots as a licensed clinical social worker. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm expanding my private psychotherapy practice where, amongst other things, I provide harm reduction, |
| 1:53.0 | preparation and integration support for people that use psychedelics. I've also got a few exciting |
| 1:58.3 | new initiatives opening up in the psychedelic space. |
| 2:02.1 | So look out for these soon. |
| 2:07.3 | And if you want to stay connected with me, just head to LinkedIn or my therapist profile on psychology today. |
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