Psilocybin microdosing

Running a microdosing study with a Schedule I substance is only partly a scientific problem. Between 2019 and 2021 I led a small team of research assistants through the logistical and legal structures required to obtain approval to conduct research with psilocybin in healthy volunteers.

That meant sustained communication with multiple U.S. state, federal, and institutional stakeholders — identifying and addressing the ethical, legal, and safety issues in the research proposal, and translating between what the science required and what each regulator needed to see.

The work was supported in part by a Usona Institute Scholarship (2021).

Alongside the empirical programme, I have written on the state of the field and on the role of expectancy in psychedelic experience: a review of microdosing research trajectories and practical considerations (Wong & Raz, 2022), and work on suggestibility and psychedelics from therapeutics to social context (Oliver et al., 2024).

References

2024

Psych. Consc.

Suggestibility and psychedelics: From therapeutics to social context

A. Oliver, A. Wong, E. Chen, and 1 more author

Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice. Advance online publication , 2024

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@article{oliver2024suggestibility,
  title = {Suggestibility and psychedelics: From therapeutics to social context},
  author = {Oliver, A. and Wong, A. and Chen, E. and Raz, A.},
  journal = {Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and Practice},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {American Psychological Association},
  doi = {10.1037/cns0000412},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1037/cns0000412},
}

2022

Transcult. Psych.

Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations

A. Wong and A. Raz

Transcultural Psychiatry, 2022

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@article{wong2022microdosing,
  title = {Microdosing with classical psychedelics: Research trajectories and practical considerations},
  author = {Wong, A. and Raz, A.},
  journal = {Transcultural Psychiatry},
  volume = {59},
  number = {5},
  pages = {675--690},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications},
  doi = {10.1177/13634615221129115},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/13634615221129115},
}

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