Psychedelics in PERIL: The Commercial Determinants of Health, Financial Entanglements and Population Health Ethics.

ABSTRACT: The nascent for-profit psychedelic industry has begun to engage in corporate practices like funding scientific research and research programs. There is substantial evidence that such practices from other industries like tobacco, alcohol, pharmaceuticals and food create conflicts of interest and can negatively influence population health. However, in a context of funding pressures, low publicly funded success rates and precarious academic labor, there is limited ethics guidance for researchers working at the intersection of clinical practice and population health as to how they should approach potential financial sponsorship from for-profit entities, such as the psychedelic industry. This article reports on a reflective exercise among a group of clinician scientists working in psychedelic s

SUBMITTER: Buchman D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11481016 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr-Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature