About Us:
Psychedelic Safety Alliance
The Psychedelic Safety Alliance (PSA) was founded by drug safety and harm reduction experts dedicated to preventing suffering and loss related to the use of psychedelics and other substances.
Our goal is simple: to help people who use psychedelics avoid risks which can negatively impact their health, safety, and continued existence.
Dax Jackson
Co-Founder
Dax Jackson is a community health activist of 17 years who began studying psychopharmacology and psychedelic harm reduction in college after several of their friends died and experienced psychotic episodes as a result of using psychedelics and other drugs.
In addition to teaching at festivals and community events, Dax has spent years collaborating with an interdisciplinary network of psychedelic safety experts to help create our educational offerings.
Their subfields of interest include preventative safety protocols, curriculum development, and tracking trends in drug culture and underground markets.
Ally Lee
Co-Founder
Ally Lee is a clinical social worker of 15 years who works closely with both the street and festival drug user communities.
Formerly the head of a chapter of Students For Sensible Drug Policy, Ally also works as a first responder and harm reduction educator at Burning Man and other large events.
Her subfields of interest include mental health crisis intervention, overdose reversal, and translating academic literature into tactical safety protocols.
Our Team
The Psychedelic Safety Alliance was founded by people from the festival community dedicated to preventing suffering and loss related to the use of psychedelics and other substances.
As young people, our grief and confusion around watching our friends get hurt galvanized us into action and led us to invest years of time, energy, and resources into learning how to keep our community safe.
Experience
We’ve spent thousands of hours over 25 combined years doing research, aggregating resources, analyzing crisis scenarios, conducting interviews, and building an interdisciplinary tribe of experts and specialists to provide us with the most legit, up-to-date psychedelic safety wisdom available.
Our goal is simple: to help people who use psychedelics avoid risks which can negatively impact their health, safety, and continued existence.
Founding
After being friends for several years, we saw a massive unmet need in our communities and decided to join forces to create the world’s first comprehensive, clinically-informed psychedelic safety curriculum.
A decade later, we’ve now taught together at festivals, colleges, and numerous community events, and are now pleased to offer our training courses online as a means of reaching a wider audience.
Past Live Events
Harm Reduction 101 - Oakland Paideia - 2013
