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(TNS) The recently ousted director of Kentucky’s commission charged with distributing opioid lawsuit settlement money, who championed a proposal to invest those funds into researching the efficacy of a psychedelic
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/Getty/Wikimedia CommonsWhen Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron announced this year that his office planned to take at least $42 million from state money and use it to fund corporate research for an experimental psychedelic addiction treatment, he caught many people off guard—including some of the officials tasked with allocating that money.The proposal—to fund development for the alternative therapy ibogaine—and the continuing mystery o
The inside story about a state commission that wants to spend $42 million on a controversial psychedelic drug to treat opioid addiction—and the complicated reasons why.
In Kentucky, one of the states hit hardest by the ongoing overdose crisis, the Opioid Abatement Advisory Commission heard hours of testimony on Friday from military veterans, parents, psychologists and other advocates—including former Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R)—who are in favor of further studying ibogaine as a treatment for addiction. It was the second of […]
Republican ex-Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder is directly contradicting FBI testimony at his corruption trial in Cincinnati. Taking the stand for the first time Wednesday, the 63-year-old Householder denied attending swanky Washington dinners where prosecutors allege he and executives of Akron-based FirstEnergy Corp. hatched a $60 million bribery scheme at the heart of their case in 2017. Householder looked relaxed and confident during his first day of testimony. He told jurors in U.S. District Court he never demanded loyalty from his members or pressured them to vote for nuclear bailout ...