[Ethics in the practice of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy].

The article proposes ten essential ethical points for the practice of psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy (PAP): respecting legal frameworks for psychotropic drugs, managing psychedelics safely (storage, production, security), reporting adverse effects to authorities, guaranteeing psychotherapeutic follow-up, ensuring patient safety during treatment, basing indications on scientific evidence, separating personal recreational use from medical use, avoiding proselytizing or poor medical practices, not equating personal psychedelic consumption with clinical competence, and ensuring equitable and reasonable access to care.

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Abstract

This article proposes 10 points considered essential on the ethics associated with the practice of psychotherapy assisted by psychedelics (PAP) : 1) respect of the legal framework (LStup) of the use of psychotropic drugs ; 2) adequately manage psychedelics (storage, production and safety) ; 3) announce adverse effects to the competent authority ; 4) guarantee a psychotherapeutic follow-up ; 5) guarantee the safety of the patients during the treatment ; 6) establish indications on the basis of scientific evidence ; 7) do not confuse personal recreational use and strict medical use ; 8) avoid proselytizing or bad medical practices ; 9) do not to consider the personal consumption of psychedelics as a competency in care and 10) ensure that access to care is equitable and reasonable.