How Does Cerebral Work?

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Cerebral gives you access to a team of license therapist counselors and prescribes on line. You pay your subscription fee, which is roughly 80 dollars a month for medication management. The company signed up simon biles to be their chief impact officer last fall after her very public battles with with mental health during the olympics.

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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