Hello blue sky! Trying to see more of this community and what it has to offer. I'm a Canadian, interested in pharma, politics, global events, and fun nerd stuff.
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We talk endlessly about weapons, borders, and strategy. Much less about the trauma war leaves behind. Unhealed trauma fuels the next cycle of violence.
If we want a more peaceful world, addressing those wounds has to be part of the conversation.
If this US/Iran war starts, my heart is going to be with the poor Iranians who don't support the regime, but will still end up being harmed.
This regime needs to go - there's no argument about that, but I can't help but feel pain. The Ayetollahs do not care for their people. Just their ideology.
This is a healthcare system that has made death the path of least resistance.
When it's easier to get approved to die than to get treatment to live, something has gone fundamentally wrong in this country.
Want to die? Here's your approval in weeks. Want to live? Wait in line, fill out the paperwork, and hope the government decides you're sick enough to deserve help but not so sick that they'd rather just let you go. This isn't one broken program.
The government sent back a 15-page rejection saying he wasn't close enough to death. Three weeks later, he was approved for MAID. They told a man being suffocated by his own lungs that he's not dying enough for therapy but dying enough to be killed.
He wanted psilocybin-assisted therapy, a supervised medical treatment to help him face his final days without constant terror. His doctor applied to the federal government for access. They waited 11 months.
And then there's Pete Pearson, 75, from Sarnia. Terminal pulmonary fibrosis — his lungs are slowly suffocating him, and there's no cure. He can barely walk to his driveway. He knows how this ends. It will feel like drowning. Pete doesn't want to die.
That doctor has described assisted suicide as "the best work I've ever done" and joked about delivering 1,000 babies while helping "more than 500 patients die."
He improved. Joined a gym, did 30 personal training sessions, and was making plans to travel with his mom. Then winter hit, the depression came back, and a doctor in BC approved him in 90 days. His parents weren't even notified.
Kiano Vafaeian, 26, blind with Type 1 diabetes and seasonal depression, was approved for assisted death.
His mother alleges the MAID doctor was coaching him on how to qualify. His family had actually stopped it once before in Ontario and got him help.
Canada's healthcare system is completely backwards. We'll fast-track your death but make you fight for your life.
I don't oppose MaID, but man this dichotomy really hurts the soul.
The system seems lost, and I worry this is the vibe across institutions.
A man waits nearly a year for regulated psilocybin therapy to ease end-of-life distress and is denied.
He applies for MAiD and is approved in 3 weeks.
Bureaucracy moves fast when it wants to.
12x more American veterans die per year through suicide than the the number who died during the worst year of Afghanistan.
This needs to change. MDMA therapy is a serious and needed option.
Proud of our team for speaking up, and continuing to work on this.
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My dad's been working out west, and man some of the views are just stunning right now.
This is why I am proud that Pharmala has rapidly become the supplier of choice for institutions like Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins among many others for clinical trials across America and Canada.
Veterans put their lives, bodies, minds and soul at risk to protect the freedoms we hold dear.
They deserve the best service possible. MDMA therapy could very well be a path to reduce extreme rates of PTSD.
