Meaghan gets a hold of the clinical trial data and she and Dave and Lily pull it apart. Why are the studies so small? What actually happens in the black box of therapy? Why can't the trial participants find their actual experience reflected anywhere in the published data? We look to MAPS for answers.

CREDITS

Cover Story is a production of New York magazine.

Power trip is co-created, produced and reported by David Nickles and Lily Kay Ross.

Our senior producers are Marianne McCune and Whitney Jones. Also produced by Tarkor Zehn, Liza Yeager, Noor Bouzidi, and iO Tillett Wright.

Our executive producer and editor is Hanna Rosin.

With additional editing help by Nichole Hill.

Sound design and scoring by Brandon McFarland.

Additional sound design by Sharif Youssef, who also mixed the show.

Cover Story’s Theme music by Santigold.

Additional music by Lynx DeMuth and John Ellis.

Fact-checking by Britina Cheng and Ted Hart.

Special thanks to legal minds Elissa Cohen, Jillian Robbins, and Samantha Mason. And also to Gaby Grossman and Nese Devenot.

Power Trip is also produced with Psymposia, a non-profit watchdog group. For a deeper dive into some of these issues visit psymposia.com/powertrip.

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