tragic story - masterfully written by C.J. CHIVERS: nytimes.com/2023/02/21/mag…. time to do an exhaustive after-action review

Also worth noting re President Biden Joe Biden's evolution on #drugpolicy , his administration is also considering
a #Psychedelic Therapies Task Force. Read Ken Jordan's fascinating account of what's transpired to date. Stephen N. Xenakis MAPS
lucid.news/biden-administ… via Lucid News

credit to the journalists for a great story - lucid.news/biden-administ… a team working together dedicated to help those in need with creative treatments. we have a team that cares!

time.com/6208079/psyche… the Right-to-Try - when we & those we love are searching for peace & a glimmer of light

Mass shootings highlight our failure in mental health thehill.com/opinion/crimin…

Tyrants get bad information — so do non-tyrants thehill.com/opinion/nation… reliable, factual, unvarnished flow of information is vital to success Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) Physicians for Human Rights Human Rights First Jonathan Moreno

the world is watching the US as it wrestles with handling Guantanamo: eldiario.es/internacional/….

agree with the opinion - nytimes.com/2021/12/29/opi… & dismayed that our current politics are too partisan for fix. see my piece from WaPo in Feb 2005 & article in the JAAPL from 2014. ethical principles are America's best defense.

another year has passed & another surge of COVID. it looks like a prolonged combat stress. see my piece from Jan 2021 msn.com/en-us/news/pol… let's improve mental health for all! time to act - train more therapists - offer affordable treatments - reach out to the most needy.

Footnote from Greece on Veterans Day 2021 thehill.com/opinion/nation…. A message to our political leadership. Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL) Silver Hill Hospital Physicians for Human Rights Veterans Affairs

«Το #Αφγανιστάν θα τους ακολουθεί». Ο ψυχίατρος και ταξίαρχος ε.α. Stephen N. Xenakis μιλάει στην Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ για το ηθικό τραύμα των Αμερικανών βετεράνων του πολέμου. kathimerini.gr/world/56149604…

Footnote from Greece on Veterans Day 2021 thehill.com/opinion/nation…. Reflections on Veterans Day. And commitment to care them & their families.

the federal & state governments should apply lessons learned from Gulf War syndrome - multi-modal, integrated care thehill.com/policy/healthc…. i pused for leadership some months ago thehill.com/opinion/health…

It’s official. I just receive a U01 grant from NIDA to study #psilocybin for tobacco addiction. To my knowledge it's the 1st grant from the US government in over a half century to directly study therapeutics of a classic #psychedelic . New era in legitimacy of psychedelic science.

In 1865 President Lincoln was shot at Ford’s Theatre, and in 2021 the theatre itself tries to murder his reputation.

John Wilkes Booth would be proud.

'But the horrors of Guantánamo will not disappear by simply shutting down the facility. There must be a proper reckoning... Without this reckoning, [ @potus] statements in support of human rights will continue to ring hollow. (1/)

Thank you to all the experts that have worked with PHR to seek justice for victims of torture, including Stephen Soldz; P*st: ssoldz; Mstdn in Bio Steven Reisner Stephen N. Xenakis Sondra Crosby, MD Vincent Iacopino Allen Keller & many more!

Complicit

Shame on the licensing boards.

President Bush announced Majid Khan’s transfer from the CIA #torture program to #Guantanamo 15 years ago today. And wouldn’t let him meet or speak with me for a year because counsel access would harm national security. Imagine that now. The CCR

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