Colette Condorcita Schmitt

With the passing of Bob Weir, co-founder of the Grateful Dead, we are invited into a deeper reckoning, not just with history, but with the direction of modern psychedelic culture itself. Today’s psychedelic renaissance is largely framed through healing: trauma, depression, addiction, PTSD. This focus is important and incomplete. The Grateful Dead understood something we are at risk of losing: The most powerful medicine is not just healing pain. It is restoring joy, pleasure, belonging, and...

When clinicians, policymakers, or families confront the realities of substance use disorder (SUD), the conversation often focuses narrowly on addiction itself—cravings, relapse cycles, or treatment programs—but the data reveal a more nuanced story. SUD rarely arises in isolation. Deeply correlated with neurodivergence and trauma, the overlap of these neuro-phenomenology patterns reveals shared pathways of coping and risk. Adults with ADHD are about twice as likely to develop a substance use...

In a time when diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts are not just stalled but actively being dismantled—from government bans to corporate rollbacks—it’s critical to examine what’s at stake.  Policies that once aimed to make workplaces more inclusive are being stripped away, especially in the U.S., where political movements seek to eliminate DEI initiatives entirely.  Under the influence of figures like Donald Trump and his allies, entire frameworks meant to support marginalized...