Produced with the UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics and PRX, Altered States is a new podcast about what science can teach us about psychedelics, and what psychedelics can teach us about ourselves.

Psychedelics are now at the center of a global conversation about mental health, mysticism, and even how we experience illness and death. In Altered States, host Arielle Duhaime-Ross explores how people are taking these drugs, who has access to them, how they're regulated, who stands to profit, and what these substances might offer us as individuals and as a society.

Jennie Cataldo is the Senior Producer on this project.