6. Open Heart Surgery

We talk to participants in the most advanced clinical trials on MDMA as a treatment for trauma. On paper, they are success stories. In reality they are a mess. And one of them was put in a terrible bind by her trial therapists.


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Cover Story is a production of New York magazine.

Power trip is co-created, produced and reported by David Nickles and Lily Kay Ross.

Our senior producers are Marianne McCune and Whitney Jones. Also produced by Tarkor Zehn, Liza Yeager, Noor Bouzidi, and iO Tillett Wright.

Our executive producer and editor is Hanna Rosin.

With additional editing help by Nichole Hill.

Sound design and scoring by Brandon McFarland.

Additional sound design by Sharif Youssef, who also mixed the show.

Cover Story’s theme music by Santigold.

Additional music by Lynx DeMuth and John Ellis.

Fact-checking by Britina Cheng and Ted Hart.

Special thanks to legal minds Elissa Cohen, Jillian Robbins, and Samantha Mason. And also to Russell Hausfeld.

Power Trip is also produced with Psymposia, a non-profit watchdog group. For a deeper dive into some of these issues visit psymposia.com/powertrip.

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