The legal and illegal ways people are turning to psychedelics as the drug regulator rejects reclassification bid
ABC News, February 4, 2021
MMA founders expressed disappointment yesterday at the TGA’s desire to wait until current clinical research is complete before the rescheduling of these controversial medicines is considered.
Health regulator to decide on psychedelics
ABC - RN Breakfast with Fran Kelly, February 3, 2021
For the past two years a group of prominent Australians – including a former Howard government minister and a former Australian Defence Chief – have been campaigning for greater therapeutic access to psychedelic drugs.
MDMA and psilocybin not approved for medicinal use in Australia
9 News, February 3, 2021
The TGA chose not to reschedule MDMA and psilocybin from a prohibited substance (schedule 9) to a controlled medicine (schedule 8).
Interview with Admiral Chris Barrie AC and Peter Hunt AM
3AW Radio, February 2, 2021
Listen to the full interview here
TGA to rule on psychedelic medicine access for mental health problems
The Australian, January 28, 2021
A group of prominent Australians is continuing to push for greater access to psychedelic medicines to treat mental health problems, saying the benefits and cost of inaction are impossible to ignore.
Former Defence Force chief Chris Barrie supports increased accessibility of psychedelic drugs
Canberra Times, January 17, 2021
Former Defence Force chief Chris Barrie has given his support to a campaign to increase accessibility of psychedelic medicines for sufferers of mental illness, including MDMA and psilocybin.
Talking Music, Ceremony and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy with Tania de Jong AM
Rune Soup, January 13, 2021
This week, we welcome to the show Tania de Jong. Tania is a soprano, social entrepreneur, business woman, professional speaker and member of the Order of Australia among many other things. She has also founded several highly successful charities that have brought thousands of people together to heal through music and singing. Tania’s most recent charity is Mind Medicine Australia, which is helping to bring psychedelics into the fields of mental health and social well being.
Tania de Jong – a healing note
Wellbeing Magazine, January 12, 2021
With the voice of an angel, the heart of a lion and the soul of a mystic, Tania de Jong AM leads a varied and productive life. She is a gifted soprano with an entrepreneurial flair
and a passion for giving. Having built numerous businesses, performed in countless venues, released many CDs and established three charities, her latest vision is to transform the treatment of mental illness in Australia.
Psychedelic substances could help with depression: old drugs as remedy for PTSD
Cairns Post, January 2, 2021
A Therapeutic Goods Administration decision on psychedelic drugs in the New Year could offer hope to Far Northern sufferers of PTSD and depression.
MDMA and magic mushrooms to be used to treat Australians with mental health issues
Daily Telegraph, December 18, 2020
Exclusive: In the first course of its kind in the southern hemisphere, 100 Australian doctors, psychiatrists, psychologists, mental health care nurses, social workers and occupational therapists will be trained and ready to treat patients with party drugs such as MDMA and magic mushrooms.
3 Part Series – National Regulator takes on United Nation’s convention. How psychedelic medicine is becoming a reality in Australia
Cannabis Law Report, December 1, 2020
This is Part 1 of a 3 part series we will be publishing over the next few weeks about Australia’s place in the ever-quickening world of regulated psilocybin and MDMA penned by Mind Medicine Australia (MMA)
Podcast with Kyle Buller and Joe Moore (USA) from Psychedelics Today and Tania de Jong AM
Psychedelics Today, November 24, 2020
In this episode, Kyle Buller and Joe Moore (USA) interview singer, speaker, social entrepreneur, and founder of numerous charities and organizations, Tania de Jong AM.
Mind Medicine Australia pushes forward with new partner
Byron Echo, November 23, 2020
As Mind Medicine Australia awaits the results of a rescheduling application before the Therapeutic Goods Administration to allow psychedelic medications to be used more widely in clinical therapy, the charity organisation has announced a new partnership with the company Emyria.
Unstress Podcast with Tania de Jong AM and Dr Ron Ehrlich
Unstress Podcast, October 21, 2020
Mind Medicine Australia’s Executive Director and Co-Founder, Tania de Jong AM explains why she established Mind Medicine Australia and how it aims to help alleviate the suffering caused by mental illness in Australia through expanding the treatment options available to medical practitioners and their patients.
Podcast with Ari Delashmutt and Tania De Jong AM
Ari Delashmut, Ari in the Air Podcast, September 26, 2020
In this wide-ranging podcast, Tania de Jong AM speaks to podcast host Ari Delashmutt about the work that Mind Medicine Australia is doing to allow psychedelic treatments for clinical use in Australia.
Psychedelics as medicine?
Byron Healing, September 9, 2020
NSW Greens MP Cate Faehrmann recently hosted an online webinar with Tania de Jong AM and Peter Hunt AM from Mind Medicine Australia, looking at the emerging role of psychedelics in mental health treatment.
MDMA and psilocybin considered in Australia for psychotherapy use
Newcastle Herald, September 4, 2020
A psychiatrist has called for people suffering from treatment-resistant post-traumatic stress disorder [PTSD] to be allowed access to MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. Dr Stuart Saker, whose practice is based in Toronto near Newcastle, NSW, said many of his patients were military veterans and emergency service workers.
Is Psychedelics The Answer to Our Mental Health Crisis?
Mamamia, The Quicky Podcast, September 4, 2020
In this wide-ranging podcast, Tania de Jong AM relates that studies are being done with psychedelic drugs in various ways hoping that they might be a silver bullet for the treatment of mental illness. Since the widespread use of them in the 1960s and their links to the counterculture of the time, the drugs haven’t been taken seriously – until now.
Mind Medicine Australia Submits Australian-First Application for the Rescheduling of Psilocybin and MDMA
Mind Medicine Australia, September 1, 2020
Mind Medicine Australia has submitted Australia’s first applications to the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to reschedule Psilocybin and MDMAso that they can be more easily used as part of clinical therapies for the treatment of major classes of mental illness.