Health-care professionals fight decision to reject access to psilocybin for training
Canada violated the rights of hundreds of patients awaiting access to psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy when it rejected applications from health-care professionals to consume the restricted drug for training purposes, a lawyer for the workers argued in Federal Court on Tuesday.
The health workers – including doctors, psychologists, clinical counsellors, social workers and nurses – had requested an exemption under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy involves ingesting consciousness-altering substances like psilocybin in a clinical setting as part of more traditional psychotherapy. A trained, licensed clinical practioner then provides therapy that guides patients as they experience the effects of psilocybin.
“Health-care practitioners have reported that the training improved their ability to treat patients, and no negative effects have resulted from this training or the exemptions,” documents submitted to court by the health workers said. Pope also said there are reports of people who are untrained but are offering psilocybin therapy “and people are suffering harm.”
There are Canadians who provide the psychotherapy without having consumed magic mushrooms during their trainings, Francis said.
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