Hannah McLane, MD, MA, MPH joined Andrea Lawful Sanders of WURD Radio live on The Source to discuss distributive justice and the racial disparities at play in the U.S. plan for allocating scarce resources in light of COVID-19.
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New Piece by Hannah McLane MD just published on WHYY; "In my opinion, what defines a ‘fair’ resource allocation choice? It is one that considers not just the number of lives saved, but also what is behind those lives. Being fair about where our efforts go and not being biased based on a deluded notion that we are all starting out on a level playing field."
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During this COVID crisis, we are faced with a real life bioethics challenge, and we have been contemplating how we can best support our community through the difficult times ahead. To provide some insight into how we are thinking about this issue, we are sharing the presentation Michelle Joy and Hannah McLane gave last summer at the SOAP Conference in Pittsburgh.
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SoundMind Center is mentioned in our local media, the Philadelphia Inquirer. This article discusses the potential of psychedelics, specifically psilocybin and LSD, in the medical setting and notes the progress of the MDMA clinical trials for PTSD: "Upon FDA approval, the SoundMind Center, based in West Philly, will open a clinic in Cedar Park offering MDMA-assisted psychotherapy to populations with higher rates of PTSD." We are committed to quality care and access to these therapies and will be ready to provide psilocybin and LSD assisted therapy once legally available for medical use.
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MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy Expanded Access program has been accepted by the FDA! The FDA will be allowing only a limited number of patients (less than 50 in the entire country) to enroll outside of the phase III trial. This is an incredible moment in the approval process.
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Aisha Mohammed, a therapist at SoundMind, is quoted in this great piece on the importance of providing access to psychedelic therapies for people of color with PTSD, and others who have been targeted by the War on Drugs. We are so proud of our team who is leading the charge in Philadelphia to bring these incredible therapies into the mainstream, and specifically to the marginalized communities that need and deserve them most.
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SoundMind center was mentioned in the Philly Voice and our founder, Dr. Hannah McLane, was quoted: “She said people of color often face ongoing traumas caused by racial injustices and neighborhood violence – in addition to potentially having a main index trauma. ‘This leads to higher rates of PTSD in communities of color and this can also be more difficult to treat due to the ongoing nature of it,’ McLane said in an email. ‘We want to make sure to put significant resources towards addressing this inequality, as higher rates of PTSD in the population can cause ripple effects that serve to worsen the already unequal and unjust system.’”
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