Health Canada Permits Physicians to Prescribe Psychedelic Drugs for Mental Illnesses
The Special Access Program by Health Canada allows patients with life-threatening mental health conditions whose previous treatments have been ineffective to begin using MDMA and psilocybin mushrooms as part of their treatment. Before physicians were allowed to prescribe these medicines, the drugs could only be used after an exemption was granted for individual palliative cases by Health Canada. David Harder states that this move, which allows physicians to prescribe psychedelics in their practices, is a huge shift with regard to psychedelic legalization in Canada. Harder, who operates the ATMA Calgary Urban Journey Center, added that physicians would still be required…