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Psychedelics are psychiatry’s new hope Once-demonised hallucinogens such as psilocybin are showing astonishing promise in the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder. Psilocybin is the psychedelic found in “magic mushrooms” such as psilocybe semilanceata.  Andrew Jacobs Save Share It’s been a long, strange trip in the four decades since Rick Doblin, a pioneering psychedelics researcher, dropped his first hit of acid in college and decided to dedicate his life to the healing powers of mind-altering compounds. Even as anti-drug campaigns led to the criminalisation of ...

The psychedelic revolution is coming. Psychiatry may never be the same By Andrew Jacobs New York Times,Updated May 9, 2021, 9:24 p.m. Email to a Friend Rick Doblin, director of the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, a nonprofit research group, at his home in Belmont, Mass. on April 9, 2021. A new study shows that MDMA, the illegal drug known as Ecstasy or Molly, can bring relief when paired with talk therapy to those with severe post-traumatic stress disorder.RONY LUONG/NYT It’s been a long, strange trip in the four decades since Rick Doblin, a pioneering psychedelics...