The unreported harms of the Swiss psychedelic program

Two deaths and two serious incidents in two years. How many serious incidents have gone unreported?

Mary (not her real name) was administered MDMA in a Swiss hospital in 2025. She had been worn down by several years of complex PTSD, severe enough that she had been granted invalidity insurance. She was prescribed and treated with MDMA for C-PTSD by a psychiatrist, not her regular psychotherapist, as part of the Federal Office of Public Health (FOPH)’s …