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Psychedelics – reasons for caution: Stacy Fischer, Brian Anderson, Theora Cimino

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Two of our guests today, Stacy Fischer and Brian Anderson, are involved in large multicenter trials of psychedelics for patients with advanced cancer (Fischer) or life-limiting illness (Anderson). In our prior podcast with Ira Byock on psychedelics in 2019 we talked primarily about the potential of psychedelics. That’s great.

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PC for Patients with Substance Use Disorder: Janet Ho, Sach Kale, Julie Childers

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Today we talk with experts Janet Ho, Sach Kale, and Julie Childers about opioid use disorder and serious illness. Eric 00:51 So we’re gonna be talking about caring for people with serious illness and substance abuse. Who has a song request for Alex before we talk about substance use disorder and serious illness?

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Stories We Tell Each Other to Heal: Ricky Leiter, Alexis Drutchas, & Emily Silverman

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And for about five years, my mom was declining from a dementia illness, we think something Parkinsonian. It was all covered by my mom’s insurance. It was late on a Friday afternoon in December 2019. So my parents, I’m an only child and my parents were living in Florida, in Miami, which is where I grew up.

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