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Brian Murphy

Brian Murphy, M.Ed, LCSW, has a private practice in Holistic Psychotherapy in New York City, and is also the head of Holistic Health at New York Harm Reduction Educators, a syringe exchange program in East Harlem. He has worked with active drug users for over twenty years, using the compassionate and flexible model known as harm reduction.


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Young People of Color As Leaders in The Movement To End the War on Drugs

April 22, 2019

How do you center the needs and perspectives of people of color in your activism—not because you want to fill a quota, but because the success of your work depends on it?


An open letter to the newly founded Center for Psychedelic Research at Johns Hopkins

October 9, 2019

With the recent creation of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, we must remember that, while industrialized medicine has never attempted to serve all people, institutional histories vary from one organization to the next.


What the heck happened to Reality Sandwich?

October 21, 2019

Reality Sandwich was sold to a group called Delic Corp. Now there's a lawsuit.


Chicago could become largest city to Decriminalize Entheogenic Plants

October 22, 2019

Chicago’s Committee on Health and Human Relations unanimously passed (50-0) a resolution October 16 to decriminalize entheogenic plants and fungi.


Intersecting Movements: Drug Policy Reform and Climate Action

October 31, 2019

Climate justice is racial justice, and we cannot achieve racial justice without ending the War on Drugs.


As legal psychedelic therapy emerges, ethicists urge for more comprehensive frameworks to address sexual abuse

November 21, 2019

With a checkered history of misconduct, how will psychedelic-assisted therapists be held accountable in the emerging legal field?


A Suburban Junkie’s Journal

November 25, 2019

The first time I bought a balloon of heroin I was 20 years old. Fresh out of rehab, I was craving opiates—specifically OxyContin.


We Refuse to Endorse Daniel Pinchbeck as a Credible Voice in the Psychedelic Movement

December 5, 2019

Pinchbeck has not publicly engaged in the difficult work of reorganizing his relationship to power, which is a precondition for learning to wield power and authority responsibly. Instead, he has shown that he is predominantly concerned with reestablishing his career and with recentering himself as an authority figure


31 miles and a tab of acid later…

December 19, 2019

A corrective experience achieved through dropping acid and running the 2019 Burning Man Ultramarathon


BBC Duped into Promoting Marketing Scheme for Microdosing Psychedelics

January 15, 2020

A recent BBC story entitled “The ‘psychedelics coach’ with drug-fuelled career advice,” offers an opportunity to examine what happens when sloppy journalism and self-promotional psychedelic marketers collide.


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