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Statehouse bills push for study of magic mushrooms

Statehouse bills push for study of magic mushrooms

WCAX-TV (Burlington, VT)

There’s growing evidence that mushrooms could be used as medicine to treat everything from depression and PTSD to substance use disorder and even to help people cope with dying...

Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to a Wide Array of Drugs

Opioid Settlement Hinders Patients’ Access to a Wide Array of Drugs

New York Times

Nearly a year after a sweeping opioid settlement imposed new requirements on the companies that provide medications to pharmacies, patients across the United States are having difficulty obtaining drugs to treat many conditions...

Florida eyes rule change to let doctors OK medical pot via telehealth

Florida eyes rule change to let doctors OK medical pot via telehealth

Tampa Bay Times

A Florida House panel unanimously signed off on a proposal that would allow doctors to renew patients’ medical marijuana approvals using telehealth...

Advanced practice nurses in Kentucky will have more prescribing authority under new law

Advanced practice nurses in Kentucky will have more prescribing authority under new law

Kentucky Lantern

Senate Bill 94, which would give qualifying advanced practice registered nurses the chance at more independence in Kentucky, passed the Senate on Feb. 24 and the House on March 10...

CU to Study How Psilocybin Affects Mental Health of Cancer Patients

CU to Study How Psilocybin Affects Mental Health of Cancer Patients

Westword (Denver, CO)

For the first time ever, the National Cancer Institute is funding a study that will look into psilocybin’s effect on the emotional and mental suffering of terminal cancer patients...

Oklahoma House advances psilocybin research program

Oklahoma House advances psilocybin research program

Oklahoman (Oklahoma City, OK)

Oklahoma soon could authorize medical research into psilocybin, the psychedelic compound found in so-called “magic mushrooms.”

Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End

Aggressive Medical Care Remains Common at Life’s End

The New Old Age
By Paula Span
New York Times

Although studies repeatedly show that most patients want to die at home, 25 percent of the community dwellers and almost 40 percent of the nursing home residents died in hospitals...

Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback

Oregon closer to magic mushroom therapy, but has setback

Associated Press/Yahoo! News

Facilitator training is at the heart of the nation’s first statewide psilocybin therapy and wellness program
and is core to the success of the Oregon model...

AARP—Paid caregivers are key to relieving family caregiver burden

AARP—Paid caregivers are key to relieving family caregiver burden

McKnight’s Home Care Daily

AARP said Wednesday state and federal lawmakers must solve the home care worker crisis in order to take pressure off of an estimated 38 million family caregivers...

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