{"id":27812,"date":"2022-03-15T02:12:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalwellnessinstitute.org\/?page_id=27812"},"modified":"2024-12-10T16:24:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T21:24:16","slug":"new-initiative-on-psychedelics-healing","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globalwellnessinstitute.org\/press-room\/press-releases\/new-initiative-on-psychedelics-healing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Initiative on Psychedelics & Healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Global Wellness Institute Announces New Initiative on Psychedelics & Healing<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The Initiative will support collaboration and coalition building, and ethics and best practices, in the psychedelic community; High-profile lineup of members includes Rick Doblin, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Miami, FL \u2013 March 15, 2022\u00a0<\/strong>\u2013 <\/strong>The nonprofit Global Wellness Institute\u2122 (GWI), the leading research and educational resource for the $4.4 trillion global wellness industry, welcomes a new Initiative: The Psychedelics & Healing Initiative.\u00a0The launch of this project, which joins the GWI\u2019s portfolio of 33 collaborative\u00a0initiatives<\/a>,\u00a0comes at a time when the FDA has granted some psychedelics \u201cbreakthrough\u201d status as new mental health treatments.<\/p>\n

Researchers around the globe\u2014\u2013and at some of America\u2019s most distinguished medical institutions\u2014\u2013are looking closely at how psychedelic medicines could provide treatment for intractable medical issues such as depression, anxiety, alcoholism, substance abuse and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The clinical evidence increasingly indicates that\u00a0psychedelics can make a difference.<\/p>\n

Policy changes throughout the United States are changing the regulatory landscape. Wall Street is part of the new geography too: Psychedelic pharmaceutical companies are now publicly listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the NASDAQ, and the Canadian Securities Exchange.<\/p>\n

As the world awakens to the benefits of psychedelics, among the challenges ahead are how the psychedelic community will forge a unified and thoughtful voice to help identify and address emerging issues. The GWI\u2019s Chair and CEO, Susie Ellis, welcomed the new initiative as a wellness industry first: “Psychedelic healing has arrived.\u00a0As this movement grows and receives regulatory approvals, an Initiative that\u00a0brings together respected leaders to focus on evidence-based best practices, equity and accessibility, is very much needed if we want to realize the potential for psychedelics in helping address the global mental health crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rick Doblin, PhD, founder of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), will serve as the Initiative’s Honorary Chair. Dr. Doblin’s keynote remarks at the 2021 Global Wellness Summit outlined a future for wellness where psychedelic-based medicine would take its place among long-established preventative and self-care approaches, such as meditation and stress-management. A video of his historic keynote, the first from a psychedelic advocate and researcher to the wellness industry, is available on the\u00a0Global Wellness Summit<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

Who:\u00a0<\/strong>The GWI\u2019s Psychedelics & Healing Initiative is a collaboration between leading physicians, business innovators, research scientists, impact investors, and policymakers from psychedelic organizations that exemplify the highest ideals of healing and community-building. Many are actively engaged in advocacy and the exploration of how psychedelics can heal, expand consciousness and nurture community.<\/p>\n

The founding members of the Initiative are:<\/strong><\/p>\n