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Alberta’s Act & Ketamine Therapy, Redefined with Dr. Jennifer Swainson
Alberta is Canada’s first province to regulate psychedelic treatments, but when this change took effect in early 2023, it classified ketamine in the same category as psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD, under one “psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy” framework. So, what are the risks of lumping different psychedelic treatment models together? And what is the solution moving forward?
In this episode, Dr. Jennifer Swainson, a psychiatrist and Clinical Professor at the University of Alberta, explains why terminology matters in psychedelic science, how we should be defining ketamine treatments, where the…
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