Health-care professionals are challenging the federal health minister’s decision last month to reject their application to use restricted psychedelic drugs to train in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy
“I have trouble sleeping and I have trouble staying asleep,” the musician from Burnaby, B.C., said during a recent phone interview while dealing with the same lingering headache that is often accompanied by dizziness and exhaustion.
McKenney’s story is one of several included in a request for a judicial review submitted Monday in Federal Court on behalf of more than 100 health-care professionals across the country, including doctors, psychologists, clinical counsellors, social workers and nurses. They are challenging the federal health minister’s decision last month to reject their application to use restricted psychedelic drugs to train in psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy.
McKenney said she tried to participate in an existing trial as a patient but it was too costly for her as well.Pope said some professionals also don’t want to participate in existing trials because they are meant for research of psilocybin. Documents submitted in court show hundreds of Canadians inquire about it every year, but Pope said there aren’t enough professionals in Canada to provide the treatment. Some asked for the substances to treat their anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder or other illnesses.
McKenney said if she wanted to, she could get the drugs from other channels. But she’s reluctant because she has a mental illness. McKenney said if more professionals were trained, and she had easier access to psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy, her life would change.
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