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Prognosis: Misconception

Searching For a Cure to PTSD at Burning Man

Prognosis: Misconception

Bloomberg

Health & Fitness, Science

4.1838 Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2018

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In episode three of Prognosis, Kristen V. Brown and Sarah McBride take a trip to Burning Man. They're there to follow Rick Doblin, who has become something of a folk hero for those who believe MDMA—Ecstasy—could be a viable clinical treatment for things like PTSD. But to help push an illegal drug into the mainstream, it takes lots of cash. And to find money for an unconventional treatment, what better place than Burning Man?

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0:00.0

Are you looking for a new podcast about stuff related to money?

0:05.3

Well, today's your lucky day.

0:07.1

I'm Matt Levine.

0:08.2

And I'm Katie Greifeld.

0:09.5

And we are the hosts of Money Stuff, The Podcast.

0:13.0

Every Friday, we dive into the top stories about Wall Street, finance, and other stuff.

0:17.9

We have fun. We get weird, and we want you to join us. You can listen to

0:22.0

Many Stuff the Podcasts on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:30.6

America's public enemy number one in the United States is drug abuse.

0:37.5

In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out-offensive.

0:46.6

What if the cure for a lifetime of PTSD is really just a party drug from the 1980s?

0:52.7

Welcome to Prognosis, a podcast about health, medical technology,

0:56.3

and the mind-blowing innovation now underway in some of the least expected places. I'm your host,

1:02.2

Michelle Fay Cortez. Today we're taking a look at where illegal drugs meet cutting-edge therapy.

1:10.6

Psychedelic drugs weren't always taboo.

1:12.9

In the 50s and 60s, the medical world was actually really excited about them.

1:17.8

Researchers studied LSD and psilocybin, or magic mushrooms, as a way to treat conditions

1:22.6

like depression and even addiction.

1:24.9

Before 1965, more than a thousand studies involving psychedelics were published.

1:29.8

Many people thought they were breakthroughs, providing the first hope for treating mental health conditions when little else worked.

1:37.8

But then psychedelics became the drug of choice for the counterculture, and the government cracked down.

1:43.5

In 1970, Congress passed the Controlled Substances Act,

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