Think Out Loud

Broadcast: Wednesday, July 10

FILE: A cluster of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata mushrooms found growing in a Portland city park on April 13, 2023. It’s been just over a year since Oregon’s first regulated service centers began providing therapeutic psilocybin trips to clients.

FILE: A cluster of Psilocybe ovoideocystidiata mushrooms found growing in a Portland city park on April 13, 2023. It’s been just over a year since Oregon’s first regulated service centers began providing therapeutic psilocybin trips to clients.

Arya Surowidjojo / OPB

It’s been just over a year since Oregon’s first regulated service centers began providing therapeutic psilocybin trips to clients. There are now 29 licensed service centers across the state, as well as 12 manufacturers, two testing labs and more than 300 facilitators who supervise clients during sessions.

Angie Allbee is the manager of the Psilocybin Services Section at the Oregon Health Authority. She joins us with an update on how the first-in-the-nation program is going and its goals for the next year.

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