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How Trump is pushing psychedelics reform through the health agencies

WASHINGTON — President Trump moved on Saturday to “reverse the crisis of serious mental illness in America” by boosting access to psychedelic drugs in clinical settings. In an executive order, he directed the federal government to rush access to treatments and reevaluate their status as controlled substances.

The order directs the Food and Drug Administration to expedite some psychedelics as breakthrough drugs, as well as allowing them to be used through right-to-try legislation, which allow terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs outside of usual regulatory pathways.

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WASHINGTON — President Trump moved on Saturday to “reverse the crisis of serious mental illness in America” by boosting access to psychedelic drugs in clinical settings. In an executive order, he directed the federal government to rush access to treatments and reevaluate their status as controlled substances.

The order directs the Food and Drug Administration to expedite some psychedelics as breakthrough drugs, as well as allowing them to be used through right-to-try legislation, which allow terminally ill patients to try experimental drugs outside of usual regulatory pathways.

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Optimism for Trump’s CDC pick is tempered by questions about RFK Jr.’s role

The nomination of a new leader for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — one who has scientific credentials and no public ties to the anti-vaccine movement — has generated sighs of relief in the public health world. 

As one CDC employee, who asked not to be named, put it on Friday, among staff “the general vibe is guarded but hopeful.”

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The nomination of a new leader for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — one who has scientific credentials and no public ties to the anti-vaccine movement — has generated sighs of relief in the public health world. 

As one CDC employee, who asked not to be named, put it on Friday, among staff “the general vibe is guarded but hopeful.”

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RevMed’s stunning success; FDA to reclassify peptides; and more

RevMed’s stunning success; FDA to reclassify peptides; and more

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Welcome back to Endpoints Weekly! Q1 earnings season is officially upon us. Max Gelman kicked off our coverage this week with a story about Johnson & Johnson’s confidence in navigating biosimilar competition …​ ​Read More

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AACR: FDA vet Pazdur bemoans state of agency, warns of political influence and ‘sense of anxiety’

Asked by Fierce if he’d consider returning to the FDA, Pazdur said he wouldn’t serve again under the Trump administration “for obvious reasons.”​Read More

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Asked by Fierce if he’d consider returning to the FDA, Pazdur said he wouldn’t serve again under the Trump administration “for obvious reasons.”​Read More

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