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Helena Aicher, a researcher and psychotherapist working within Switzerland’s framework for limited medical use, reflects on how Europe’s psychedelics landscape evolved in 2025.
Here, Monica Schweickle, founder of The Psychedelic Consultancy, an Australian firm that supports professionals navigating the country’s psychedelics system, and Psychedelic Alpha Editor Josh Hardman review the progress of the program and explore where it might be headed.
As we head into what many expect to be a pivotal year, we asked people from across the psychedelics field what they are excited about, concerned by, and hoping to gain clarity on in 2026. What emerges is a picture of tempered anticipation: acceptance of the importance of the year ahead is paired with a sober realism about what pivotal data, regulatory decisions, and access pathways may or may not resolve.
Here, in the first of a series of Op-Eds that focus on alternative psychedelics access models, Healing Advocacy Fund’s Executive Director, Taylor West, shares her views on how state psychedelic programs are shaping up and what we might learn from them.
Gilgamesh Prints Positive Topline from Phase 2a Study of NMDA Receptor Antagonist for MDD • FDA Lifts Hold on GH Research’s Inhaled 5-MeO-DMT IND After More than Two Years • Cybin Rebrands to Helus Pharma, Lists on Nasdaq • Compass Details PTSD Trial Design, Reaffirms TRD Launch Readiness ‘By End of Year’ • Emory Registers Trial of MDMA-Assisted Massed Exposure Therapy in Active Duty Troops • Filings Provide a Look at Psychedelics Nonprofits’ Finances • and more…
In the third video of a three-part series, Psychedelic Alpha’s Josh Hardman takes a look at some broader open questions and potential futures in the psychedelics field via a narrated presentation.
Through our years of reporting we have covered many of the topics we believe to be important to the present and future of the psychedelics space, broadly defined. However, much of this commentary is scattered across Bulletins, deep dives, special reports and year-end reviews.
The Library provides digestible explainers on salient topics across psychedelic drug development, policy and business: from basic explainers such as “what is psychedelic-assisted therapy?” through to more complex matters such as REMS programs and bifurcated scheduling.
It’s exclusively available to our Pα+ subscribers, with new content added regularly.
Pα+ Library: we introduce some of the key concepts in the matter of bifurcated scheduling; a process by which an approved drug product may be placed in a different schedule to the substance itself. As we discuss in this piece, this could have significant repercussions for psychedelic research, legality, and even taxes.
Pα+ Library: we sketch out what a psychedelic REMS might look like, highlighting how these programs could have an outsized impact on the post-approval delivery and accessibility of these treatments.
The Psychedelic Practitioner by Psychedelic Alpha is a new publication designed specifically for therapists, clinicians, facilitators, and other professionals working with—or preparing to work with—psychedelic therapies and related treatments.
The Psychedelic Practitioner by Psychedelic Alpha is a new publication designed specifically for therapists, clinicians, facilitators, and other professionals working with—or preparing to work with—psychedelic therapies and related treatments. In this Issue, we take a deep dive into the science and practice of psychedelic preparation through interviews, research reviews, and practitioner perspectives.
The Psychedelic Practitioner by Psychedelic Alpha is a new publication designed specifically for therapists, clinicians, facilitators, and other professionals working with—or preparing to work with—psychedelic therapies and related treatments.
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