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Oregon Ketamine Clinics: New Potential Restrictions on Corporate Practice of Medicine

Should private equity be involved in health care? If so, in what types of settings? And to what extent? These are baseline considerations around a broad concept referred to as “corporate practice of medicine” (“CPOM”) that state legislatures, agencies, medical licensing boards, courts and attorneys general and grappled with for over a century. The Oregon

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The Dangers of Ketamine Revisited

As most people know by now, ketamine clinics are prevalent in the United States. These clinics offer ketamine as a treatment for a variety of disorders, including pain relief, behavioral health disorders, opiate addiction, and many other ailments. Unfortunately, there are not many studies that demonstrate whether ketamine is efficacious for these various ailments because,

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California Bill Proposes Psychedelic Assisted Therapy Workgroup

California recently failed at least twice in passing sweeping statewide psychedelic decriminalization bills: a) SB-58, which Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed last year, and b) SB-519, which didn’t garner enough support in the assembly the year before. It’s now trying something much more modest – convening a workgroup to study psychedelic assisted therapy. The bill at

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A Closer Look at the FDA Warnings on Compounded Ketamine

On February 16, 2022 and October 10, 2023, the FDA issued two warnings about the use of compounded ketamine. The first warning is entitled, “FDA alerts health care professionals of potential risks associated with compounded ketamine nasal spray,” and the second warning is entitled, “FDA warns patients and health care providers about potential risks associated

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Oregon Psilocybin: State of the State (2023)

It’s hard to believe that we are wrapping up the first year of the Oregon Psilocybin Services (OPS) program. Final rules were released at this time last year, following a protracted, two-year development period. The application window for licenses opened timely on January 2, 2023, and the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) continues to administer this

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Can Ketamine Clinic MSOs Succeed?

A few months ago, I wrote a post entitled “Making Money in the Psychedelics Industry Will be Harder than Cannabis.” The post was focused mostly on hardships that state-legal psilocybin businesses will face in places like Oregon and Colorado, where I think the deck is heavily stacked against them. Today I want to examine a

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Ketamine Clinics and Malpractice: Recent New York Litigation

Many ketamine clinics in the United States offer treatments for various behavioral health conditions, including depression. However, many healthcare providers who work for these clinics are not trained in psychiatry and/or counseling. There are various legal issues with this type of fact pattern. Among other things, are healthcare providers who are not trained in psychiatry

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The VISIONS Act, Psilocybin and Federal Enforcement

Perhaps inevitably, lawmakers introduced a very skinny bill last week to protect states that legalize psilocybin from federal intervention. Specifically, it requires that: [n]o Federal funds may be used to prevent any State or unit of local government from implementing such State’s or unit of local government’s own laws that authorize the use, distribution, sale,

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Common Misconceptions About California’s New Psychedelics Bill

There is a lot of misinformation floating around online about SB-58, California’s newest psychedelics bill. Unlike the state’s last attempt, SB-58 went through both the state Senate and Assembly and is heading to Governor Newsom’s desk. So it makes sense to discuss what the bill does and doesn’t do. And no, it doesn’t legalize psychedelics.

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Ketamine Telehealth: Some More Updates

Ketamine telehealth has been a wild ride these last few years. Every few months I give an update, and every time I do, things seem to change dramatically. For example, in just a few short weeks in February 2023, the situation went from “bad” to “good” (at least sort of) as it became clear that