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Erin Schumaker
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Deputy health care editor @politico | Signal: ErinSchumaker.01
Brooklyn, NY
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    Erin Schumaker
    @erinlschumaker
    Nov 26, 2025
    My dispatch from Aspen for @POLITICOMag “We are in this magical, unique time,” Kyrsten Sinema said of Trump’s health department, led by RFK Jr, a longtime believer in psychedelics’ potential to help people, particularly veterans, with illnesses like PTSD
    Kyrsten Sinema Is Ready for Her MAHA Turn
    From politico.com
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    Erin Schumaker
    @erinlschumaker
    May 12, 2025
    A practical consequence of uncertainty around the Trump administration's rapid-fire contract cuts: Fearing a funding lapse as their NIH contract expiration date approached, brain banks stopped taking donations — and brains meant for science went to waste
    politico.com
    How Trump’s last-minute contract decision sent brains to the grave
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    Erin Schumaker
    @erinlschumaker
    Aug 21, 2024
    fwiw some say i've missed my calling
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    Erin Schumaker
    @erinlschumaker
    Aug 21, 2024
    nominative determinism at workkkkkkkk
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    Erin Schumaker
    @erinlschumaker
    Aug 21, 2024
    nominative determinism at workkkkkkkk
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    Erin Schumaker
    @erinlschumaker
    Aug 5, 2024
    While you wait out the veepstakes, read my story about the push in Congress to get MDMA-assisted therapy approved for PTSD
    How a 3-star general came to believe in psychedelic medicine
    From politico.com
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