Is This a Clean Break?

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Shan ram is firm back with ralph winkler from the wall street journal, who just told us about cerebral fast rise during the pandemic. Rolf: Cerebral hasn't been acc used of violating any laws, and they say they're fully cooperating. We wrote our story about people feeling pressure to prescribe back in late march. How was cerebral responding to all this? They say that they follow evidence based bress practices for all of their prescribing.

The mental health startup Cerebral benefited from pandemic-era changes to federal telehealth laws. But its easy-to-get prescriptions for tightly regulated stimulants — heavily promoted on social media — have sparked a Department of Justice investigation.

This episode was produced by Tori Dominguez, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Paul Mounsey, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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