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5 Psychiatry Headlines You Missed in September 2026

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Here, we review the top psychiatry news in September 2026, from DT120's second Breakthrough Therapy designation to the FDA psychedelic hearing.

September brought regulatory and research momentum for psychedelic therapies in psychiatry. The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) granted DT120 (lysergide) orally disintegrating tablet (ODT) a second Breakthrough Therapy designation, this time in major depressive disorder (MDD), and held a public hearing on how psychedelic care would be delivered if approved. Meanwhile, a proposed fix for blinding failures in psychedelic trials addressed questions about how these agents are being studied.

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