Join us at EPERN as Maria Chaplia presents insights from her recent paper, "Psychedelic Renaissance: An Entangled Political Economy Analysis."

The mental health crisis in the U.S. calls for a reconsideration of existing treatment and the institutional dynamics of public health. The psychedelic renaissance represents a revival of psychedelic therapeutics that have demonstrated promising results in treating mental health conditions. Despite the psychedelic ban in the U.S. in the 1960s-1980s, psychedelics have been successfully navigating out of the prohibition. This paper uses the innovative entangled political economy approach to present the psychedelic renaissance as a polycentric, network-based public health phenomenon that managed to emerge from the intensely entangled system of the pharmaceutical industry, science, and the U.S. government.