{"id":29556,"date":"2022-03-10T06:45:23","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/?p=29556"},"modified":"2022-03-10T06:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T06:45:23","slug":"oklahoma-researchers-could-soon-study-psychedelic-mushrooms-effect-on-mental-health-the-lawmakers-behind-the-push-hope-it-will-help-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cjstudents.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/10\/oklahoma-researchers-could-soon-study-psychedelic-mushrooms-effect-on-mental-health-the-lawmakers-behind-the-push-hope-it-will-help-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma researchers could soon study psychedelic mushrooms\u2019 effect on mental health. The lawmakers behind the push hope it will help veterans."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"subTitle\">Psilocybin research has gained momentum around the globe, as the compound begins to lose some of its stigma. After other conservative states passed laws allowing trials, Oklahoma lawmakers began working to adopt the policies here.<\/h2>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--\n\n<h2 class=\"subTitle\"><\/h2>\n\n--><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!--ByLine Code--><\/p>\n<ul class=\"si-accordion\">\n<li class=\"si-divider\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<byline class=\"accordion-head title-color si-title\">Catherine Sweeney\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" xmlns:xlink=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/xlink\" class=\"expandCircle\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0px\" y=\"0px\" viewbox=\"0 0 70 70\" style=\"enable-background:new 0 0 70 70;\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><g id=\"Circle\"><path d=\"M35,66.2c-17.2,0-31.2-14-31.2-31.2c0-17.2,14-31.2,31.2-31.2c17.2,0,31.2,14,31.2,31.2C66.2,52.2,52.2,66.2,35,66.2z M35,10.8c-13.3,0-24.2,10.9-24.2,24.2S21.7,59.2,35,59.2S59.2,48.3,59.2,35S48.3,10.8,35,10.8z\"\/><\/g><g id=\"Horizontal_Bar\"><rect x=\"18\" y=\"30.9\" width=\"33.8\" height=\"9.8\"\/><\/g><g id=\"Vertical_Bar\"><rect x=\"18\" y=\"30.9\" transform=\"matrix(-1.836970e-16 1 -1 -1.836970e-16 70.6822 0.9376)\" width=\"33.8\" height=\"9.8\"\/><\/g><\/svg><\/byline><\/p>\n<div class=\"accordion-content\" style=\"display:none;\">\n<div class=\"bioContent\">\n<div class=\"avatarWrapper\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/author\/csweeney\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Sweeney\" title=\"Catherine Sweeney\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6e5e65ed28981d956c180b3915fc4762?s=70&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" srcset=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/6e5e65ed28981d956c180b3915fc4762?s=140&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g 2x\" class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCatherine covers health for StateImpact Oklahoma. She grew up in Muskogee and went to Oklahoma State University. She has covered politics and policy in Colorado&#8217;s high plains, Oklahoma City and Washington, D.C.&#13;<br \/>\nYou can reach her at catherine@stateimpactoklahoma.org, @cathjsweeney on Twitter or 405-673-5226 on Signal.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/li>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/ul>\n<p><!--End ByLine Code--><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width: 100%; height: 200px;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.captivate.fm\/episode\/10edbc0b-3a33-4c9b-9a61-7af948f4b0d7\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before Jesse was deployed, he got a word of advice.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I went to Afghanistan, one of our guys who had deployed several times \u2014 he said something to us,\u201d he said. \u201cHe goes, \u2018Guys, I\u2019m going to tell you right now before we get in there. It\u2019s easy to go to war. The hard part\u2019s coming home. Because when you go to war, someone\u2019s trying to kill you. So you can learn anything and everything to stay alive. But when you come home, that\u2019s not happening anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That was back in 2011. Jesse is now one of the millions of Americans \u2014 and thousands of Oklahomans \u2014 who have returned stateside with post-traumatic stress disorder. He spent years struggling with symptoms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So this is a bit of an oversimplification, but post-traumatic stress can manifest in many ways. Here\u2019s one major example. Say the person has an experience where they\u2019re unsafe \u2014 in one of Jesse\u2019s many cases \u2014 riding over an explosive device that detonates. The mind and body do what they have to to survive and get away. But years later, even though the person consciously knows they\u2019re safe now, the mind and body can\u2019t let it go. They\u2019re in constant survival mode, sending out an ever-present signal to assess threats. That can lead to a symptom called hypervigilance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jesse says one of the first things that ever got that hypervigilance to turn off was psilocybin \u2014 the psychoactive compound in psychedelic mushrooms. Because mushrooms are still illegal, we aren\u2019t using Jesse\u2019s last name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt reduced anxiety and shut off that function that is not necessary here,\u201d he said. I don\u2019t need to know where everybody is sitting. I don\u2019t need to know what everybody is thinking. I don\u2019t need to know what the possible avenues are. Those are all meant for a different place. I always say, the sky just looks so much bluer today, and it was \u2014 it\u2019s just my mind, you know. I have more energy to put towards observing more of the beautiful and\u2026less paying attention to all of the possible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A bill legalizing medical trials<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State lawmakers are working to make that experience more attainable \u2014 and legal \u2014 for Oklahomans. A <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oklegislature.gov\/BillInfo.aspx?Bill=HB3414&amp;Tab=0&amp;Session=2200\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bill making its way through the statehouse<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> would allow universities and research institutions in the state to conduct psilocybin medical trials. The legislation covers several mental health conditions, but the lawmakers pitching it are focusing on PTSD, especially among veterans. Representative Logan Phillips presented the bill to the House Public Health Committee. He \u2014\u00a0like Jesse \u2014 is an army veteran.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34655\" class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 261px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-34655\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-538x672.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-538x672.jpeg 538w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-1536x1920.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-1638x2048.jpeg 1638w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-120x150.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-620x775.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-864x1080.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Phillips-Logan-scaled.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds, presented a bill allowing psilocybin medical trials to the House Public Health Committee, where it passed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of the people that were the closest to me in my unit \u2014 upon returning from Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq \u2014 either died from complications from opiate over-prescription, or died from opiate addiction, or died from suicide,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He told committee members as much during the bill\u2019s committee hearing, where it passed last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phillips has had a first-hand look into the mental health crisis veterans are facing, which is clear to see in Oklahoma. The state is consistently in the top ten for highest number of veterans per capita. The latest data from the Department of Veterans Affairs <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kosu.org\/news\/2021-04-14\/homelessness-suicide-rates-worsen-for-oklahoma-veterans\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">shows Oklahoma\u2019s veteran suicide rates are \u2018significantly higher\u2019 than the country\u2019s as a whole<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u2014 about 40 per 100,000 here versus 32 per 100,000 nationally. That suicide rate among the state\u2019s veterans is also higher than Oklahoma\u2019s rate of suicide in the general population, which is about 26 per 100,000.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Phillips had heard that psychedelics such as psilocybin could aid in treating the kind of PTSD and depression symptoms that could lead to suicide. His approach wasn\u2019t quite as hands on as Jesse\u2019s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Me, I was an academic,\u201d he said. \u201cMy background is I\u2019m a college professor, so I started doing research.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He\u2019s not the only one.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Trials outside of Oklahoma<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">COMPASS, a mental health care and research company based in London, has been conducting studies into psilocybin\u2019s effects on treatment-resistant depression. The organization\u2019s chief medical officer is <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/compasspathways.com\/team-member\/dr-guy-goodwin\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Guy Goodwin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, who previously served as the head of the psychiatry department at Oxford University. He talked with StateImpact about what a typical session looks like.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s not really like therapy as people usually understand it, where the therapist may listen and make interpretations and steer the patient,\u201d Goodwin said. It\u2019s really the patient that does all the work, and it\u2019s a kind of accelerated emotional learning, which seems, as I say, for about 25 percent of people to have really quite a dramatic effect on their state of mind \u2014 their depression, in the case of treatment resistant depression.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Both the therapist and the patient begin that work well before a session ever takes place. More than 90 percent of trial participants hadn\u2019t used psychedelics before. The experience is obviously an aberration from the norm. Goodwin says much of the work is finding a medical professional the patient feels comfortable with, who has had experience with psychedelics and can help the patient understand what they\u2019re seeing and feel safe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>\u201c<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On the day itself, the patient is encouraged to put on eyeshades, listen to music \u2026 and really, the idea is that the patient is prepared for a journey,\u201d he said. \u201cBe prepared for things that happen, which come up from your past, which are part of your present. Don\u2019t try and stop them coming as it were. Just go with the flow. Let it happen and treat it as if you\u2019re going through a river and things will pass. Difficult things will pass, good things will pass.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goodwin said this isn\u2019t a new concept. The United States and other countries were studying the medication in throughout the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIt was only when it was taken up and made recreational and associated with the counterculture that it became politically toxic,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The United States banned it first, and because of legal agreements and other policy issues, most other countries did as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo we had a 40-year freeze on research,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the tides are turning in terms of policy and in terms of public opinion, he said. Popular culture has shifted with the popularity of books such as Michael Pollan\u2019s \u201cHow To Change Your Mind\u201d and \u201cYour Mind On Plants.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the United States, one of the most well known institutions studying the medications has been Johns Hopkins Medical School. Dr. Roland Griffiths has spent decades studying psilocybin and other compounds, and during that time became the founding Director of the Johns Hopkins Center on Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. He <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tedmed.com\/talks\/show?id=526825\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gave a TED Talk<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on the subject back in 2015, about the center\u2019s findings on psychedelic therapy and its effect on tobacco cessation and depression among terminal cancer patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Psychedelics <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/why-the-push-to-decriminalize-psychedelics-is-growing-in-michigan\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have been decriminalized or legalized<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in several cities across the United States, including Denver, Washington D.C. and Oakland. Oregon was the first state to do so, and California could be next.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Psilocybin, harm reduction, and the Oklahoma Legislature\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rep. Daniel Pae, R-Lawton, is the principal House author on the measure. His district is home to many veterans and active military servicemembers, given its proximity to Fort Sill. Pae said that he has spent much of his four-year tenure in the Legislature working with constituents and colleagues on veteran mental health policy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That includes following legislative news in other states. Texas <\/span><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/news.bloomberglaw.com\/health-law-and-business\/texas-the-latest-state-to-legalize-psychedelic-medical-research\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legalized medical trials for psilocybin<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cSo, I thought it was very interesting that a state as conservative as Texas would be able to pass this type of bill,\u201d Pae said. \u201cAnd I look more into it, and you know, Rick Perry, former governor Rick Perry was one of its biggest proponents.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_34656\" class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 263px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-34656\" src=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-538x672.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-538x672.jpeg 538w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-1536x1920.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-768x960.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-1229x1536.jpeg 1229w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-1638x2048.jpeg 1638w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-120x150.jpeg 120w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-240x300.jpeg 240w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-620x775.jpeg 620w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-864x1080.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2022\/03\/Pae-Daniel-scaled.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Daniel Pae, R-Lawton, authored House Bill 3414, which would allow universities and research centers to conduct medical trials using psilocybin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He later saw a slew of other conservative states \u2014 Utah, Kansas, Missouri and Florida, to name a few \u2014 are also looking into similar policy. That being said, he and the rest of the lawmakers supporting the legislation knew it wouldn\u2019t be a quick and easy sell.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWe knew from the beginning that it would require a lot of careful time and messaging,\u201d Pae said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First up, dispelling myths. In the bill\u2019s committee hearing, some lawmakers raised concerns about the bill creating a large commercial industry. The legislation wouldn\u2019t decriminalize the mushrooms or psilocybin products for all Oklahomans. It would allow universities and research centers access to a small inventory for use in medical trials. Several compared psilocybin mushrooms to marijuana. They don\u2019t have much chemical overlap and are used for different purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Another is stigma. Inside the Legislature and out, some used the measure as a punchline; the term \u201cmagic mushrooms,\u201d which Pae says he intentionally shies away from, can conjure images of Height Ashbury and Grateful Dead concerts. Phillips said that his response to those concerns is evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe reality and the truth of this is that it works,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd so when presented with evidence that this is a treatment option, it\u2019s hard \u2026 to just think of it as 1960s hippies. This is an option for treatments. We have the research, we have our academic universities that want to get involved. You just shine the light on what it can do and people will see the value.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This whole thing might sound familiar. Oklahoma lawmakers just spent years working to legalize needle exchange programs in the state. Rep. Carol Bush, R-Tulsa, was one of its main supporters. In an interview with StateImpact Oklahoma last year, she said that the policy struggled with a perception problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cNeedle exchange,\u201d she said. \u201cI mean, that sounds very Amsterdam, very East Coast.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instead of relying on the typical talking points advocates in more progressive areas might use, she and other supporters framed it as a public safety issue. They used data from the Oklahoma Healthy Minds Initiative that showed one in three of the state\u2019s law enforcement officers will undergo a dirty needle stick in the field at some time in their careers, and one in four will undergo more than one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pae was one of the lawmakers advocating for that bill, too.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cWith that bill, the accusation was, you know, we\u2019re just providing needles to drug addicts and increasing drug addiction,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd with this bill, it\u2019s like, you know, we\u2019re just trying to legalize \u2018shrooms and give it to everyone.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pae, Phillips, Bush, one of the other members on the bill, Sen. John Michael Montgomery\u00a0 \u2014\u00a0they\u2019re all Republicans. A central part of the party\u2019s identity for decades was being hard on crime. When asked, Pae said Republicans don\u2019t have to be so rigid.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFirst, you know, I don\u2019t really consider it a choice between being soft on crime or tough on crime,\u201d he said. \u201cI believe a third, valid option is being smart on crime. That\u2019s \u2014 speaking broadly \u2014 when it comes to criminal justice reform, and destigmatizing the notion that, you know, drugs are bad, period without any nuance whatsoever.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The shift toward smart-on-crime Republicanism is not new. Several of Gov. Mary Fallin\u2019s final State of the State addresses focused on criminal justice reform and lowering the state\u2019s ranking as first in the nation for incarceration. Oklahomans passed State Question 780, which dropped simple possession of illegal drugs from a felony down to a misdemeanor, in 2016.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the shift has continued to evolve. The needle exchange bill passed out of both chambers and garnered the Gov. Kevin Stitt\u2019s signature last year. 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