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55 - Dr. Ben Sessa - Why we need a curative psychiatry.

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Ben Sessa is consultant psychiatrist, psychedelic therapist and chief medical officer at Awakn Life Sciences , UK’s first on-the-high-street provider of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Awakn is researching, developing and delivering evidence-based psychedelic medicine to treat addiction and other mental health conditions, and is aiming to open 15 to 20 clinics across the UK and EU in the next 24 months. The need is huge: 30 to 40 % of the British population were drinking in a harmful bracket in first year of the pandemic.


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