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Episode 38: Dr. Andrew Weil, The New Science of Psychedelics for Mental Health

Psychedelics Then and Now with Zach Leary

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Did Big Pharma Influence the Practice of Mental Health Treatment?

There has been a very unsavory collusion of farmasutial companies, medical journals and insurance companies to produce a marketing campaign that has led to this widespread over use of psychiatric medication. And we don't teach them other ways of managing these conditions. That's what i have been trying to correct. Through the university arizona center, for any grate of medicine, we have ill very intensive trainings for medical professionals, including psychiatrists,. We look at all the things left out of conventional training, such as nutrition. And mind body interactions and botanical medicine, an jo seem like obvious and intuitive to me.

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