Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

What would it take to bring psychedelic-assisted therapies fully into the mainstream of medicine?

5 Dec 2025 · 1 min

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Fleet Maull argues that treating just 10% of California's opioid use disorder cases could save $9 billion, given the current $98 billion economic burden. He proposes redirecting spending from ineffective treatments toward community-led outreach programs designed for each area's specific needs.

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Let's take the example of opioid use disorder in California. These numbers are hard to pinpoint, but on average, it was about $98 billion. And if we can treat 10% of those people, just 10% would save $9 billion. Okay, how would these monies be allocated? So the monies, instead of spending $98 billion on treatment paradigms that aren't as effective, we could spend quarter of that or half of that on paradigms. Community outreach programs where going into the different communities because each community has its own specific need. We go to those community leaders and help build programs around those specific needs.