Hospice News May 9, 2023
Hospice and palliative care providers can benefit from understanding federal and state laws around the use of psychedelics by serious and terminally ill patients.
Current regulations govern not only access to these substances, but the research into how patients could be affected. But any rules should include clear federal standards for this research as far as what is and is not allowed, according to Jennifer Moore Ballentine, CEO of the Coalition for Compassionate Care of California.
“There’s a lot of promise and very interesting opportunities in different controlled substances to address physical pain and symptoms, and in particular existential and spiritual suffering as well,” Ballentine told Hospice News. “But we don’t know enough yet exactly about how they work, what...
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