Psylocybin Compassionate Use

Last summer, Germany’s medicines regulator quietly green-lit a psilocybincompassionate use program, the first such pathway in the European Union(see Germany Establishes EU’s First Psilocybin Compassionate AccessProgram). Two centres are permitted to offer psilocybin dosing at present:OVID Clinic Berlin, a private clinic in the nation’s capital, and the CentralInstitute of Mental Health (CIMH) in Mannheim, a…

Psilocybin therapy is now available in Germany for the first time outside of scientific studies. The OVID Clinic Berlin is a specialized treatment center for people with treatment-resistant depression and is now part of an officially approved compassionate use program for psilocybin therapy. The compassionate use program is not a substitute for psilocybin approval. We…