Chad Charles - Integrating 5-MeO-DMT: Therapy, Harm Reduction, and Best Practices

5-MeO-DMT therapy should be approached through trained facilitation, mentorship, and trauma-informed care rather than informal or purely experimental use. The episode highlights the importance of personalized therapeutic alliances, attention to dissociative states, and ethical considerations when discussing standardized clinical dosing and practitioner responsibility. It also emphasizes breathwork as part of the therapeutic pathway and contrasts conscious surrender with submission as different experiential framing during sessions. Chad Charles discusses his ongoing work and upcoming research plan to analyze 500+ one-on-one sessions, aiming to identify best practices and ethical frameworks for harm reduction and responsible facilitation in the 5-MeO-DMT space.