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Psychedelic Ethics in a World “Warring With Drugs”

Along with apple pie, colonialism, and imperialism, one of America’s best-known characteristics known around the globe is its “war on drugs.” Although many other countries had and are still having their own violent and oppressive wars with drugs, and specifically people who use drugs, America is unique in that its war on drugs included domestic […]

September 11, 2023

<strong>An AI Bill of Rights: Implications for Health Care AI and Machine Learning—A Bioethics Lens</strong>

The following editorial will be featured in an upcoming issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Just last week (October 4, 2022), the U.S. White House released a blueprint for an A.I. Bill of Rights, consisting of “five principles and associated practices to help guide the design, use, and deployment of automated systems to protect […]

October 12, 2022

Report Card Time: How Has the Biden Administration Addressed the U.S. Hispanic Community’s Social Determinants of Health?

Much media attention has been given to the potentially shifting voting patterns of the U.S. Hispanic population in the 2020 election. However, far less attention has been given to the implications for this population of newly-enacted or proposed policies that have resulted from that election. With the 2022 midterm elections looming, we believe that these […]

October 7, 2022

Why I’m Not Backing Down From Fighting for Our Right to Abortion

On the morning of Friday, June 24, 2022, over half of the population of the United States was stripped of a fundamental constitutional right. And, within minutes, the reverberations of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade was felt by patients in states across the country. Clinics in states such as Alabama and Texas had […]

August 3, 2022