Psychedelics in Palliative Care

This edited volume explores for the first time the use of psychedelic medicines in palliative care and addiction medicine and presents some of the most novel medications that exist.

Dr. Marcia Glass is Professor of Internal Medicine at University of California, San Francisco. She has worked internationally with Doctors without Borders, the Yale/Stanford Johnson and Johnson GH Program, Columbia, and Partners in Health. Her domestic volunteer work includes Ozanam Inn, UCSF/USF Clinica Martin-Baro, asylum work in Louisiana, and volunteer work in Navajo Nation. She was a 2019 Fulbright Specialist with Pallium in India. Her most recent global-health work has been an ongoing palliative care collaboration in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her work has been published in Annals of Internal Medicine, The Lancet, NEJM, and the Washington Post. She co-edited A Field Manual for Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises (OUP, 2019), which won a first-place award in the 2021 British Medical Association Medical Book Awards. She is certified in psychedelic-assisted therapy through the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research.