Verified This Week #1: Trump EO landed, the Mormon Wives effect, and our open dataset is live

Hello, and welcome to issue one of *Verified This Week*, the LicensedPsychedelics newsletter.

If you are receiving this it is because you signed up at licensedpsychedelics.com or you opted in when claiming a clinic listing. We send one issue every week or two, never more, no recycled motivational copy. Three sections every issue: what changed in policy, what changed in our directory, and one practical thing you can do.

What changed in policy

On April 18, President Trump signed an executive order titled *Accelerating Medical Treatments for Serious Mental Illness*. The order does five operationally real things: directs the FDA to issue National Priority Vouchers for up to three psychedelic drugs already holding Breakthrough Therapy designation, opens a Right to Try pathway for investigational psychedelics including ibogaine, allocates $50M through ARPA-H for state-matched psychedelic research, requires VA / HHS / FDA coordination on trial-site expansion, and triggers DEA rescheduling review on Phase 3 completion rather than after FDA approval.

Our plain-English breakdown is in the link list above. We are tracking which clinics start advertising Right to Try ibogaine access in the next 30-60 days; if you are a clinic considering this, the practical first step is the FDA's pre-IND meeting process plus a coordinating prescriber relationship, not a press release.

What changed in our directory

Eleven new providers verified across Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. Three Spravato sites in Texas added after the FDA REMS registry refresh. Two clinics flagged for re-verification - one license expiry, one address change. The full ledger is at /data/changes (auto-generated weekly).

The Mormon Wives effect

Search volume for 'ketamine therapy mormon wives' is up 1,600% year-over-year, driven by Demi Engemann's storyline on Hulu's Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We published a four-post cluster this week explaining what is depicted, what is clinically accurate, and where comparable real treatment is available. If you run a Salt Lake City ketamine clinic and you are seeing the inbound surge already - this is why.

One practical thing this week

If you are a clinic listed in our directory: check the embed page at /embed and consider adding the Verified-by-LicensedPsychedelics badge to your site. It links back to your verified profile, updates automatically when we re-verify your license, and self-removes if you ever leave the directory. Free, takes two lines of HTML.

If you are a patient: bookmark /api/verify/{your-clinic-license-number}. Anytime a clinic claims credentialing, you can paste their license number into that URL and get a JSON response back from us confirming or denying. We built it because nobody else has.

If you are a journalist: the dataset at /data is CC BY 4.0. CSV + JSON. Cite freely.

Until next week.

- Riley + the LicensedPsychedelics editorial team