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The Interview: MDMA-Therapy Expert Dr. Rick Doblin

By Catherine Elton — 2019

The world’s leading advocate for the medicinal use of psychedelics on the ghost of Timothy Leary, why Ecstasy could cure PTSD, and the best place to trip in Boston.

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Psychedelic Therapy and Racial Trauma: Offering Clients a Deeper Experience of Healing

Like most people of color in the United States, psychotherapist and researcher Monnica Williams has experienced myriad forms of racism. Early in her career, understanding its effects on her mind and body motivated her to help clients address their own racial trauma in therapy.

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Chris Lyford
2021
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Who Will Benefit From Psychedelic Medicine?

These substances are being touted as a game-changing intervention for mental health. But it’s not clear if their promise will be accessible to all.

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Whitney Joiner
2020
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Psychedelic Drugs Can Help Treat PTSD Caused by Racism, Discrimination: Researchers

Williams is the co-lead author of a recent retrospective study that found those who tried doses of psilocybin (more commonly known as magic mushrooms), LSD, or MDMA (the pure substance found in Ecstasy or Molly) reported a decrease in trauma symptoms, depression and anxiety after 30 days.

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Avis Favaro, Elizabeth St. Philip, Solarina Ho
2021
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Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant

The first randomized controlled trial to compare the illicit psychedelic psilocybin with a conventional selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressant found that the former improved symptoms of depression just as well on an established metric—and had fewer side effects.

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Zoe Cormier
2021
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Psychedelics Could Trigger a ‘Paradigm Shift’ in Mental Health Care

A new review of studies finds that LSD, psilocybin, and MDMA hold potential for treating mental illness.

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Carolyn Gregoire
2015
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Psilocybin Sessions: Psychedelics Could Help People with Addiction and Anxiety

Study participants at some of the country's leading medical research centers are going through intense therapy and six-hour psychedelic journeys deep into their minds to do things like quit smoking and worry less.

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Anderson Cooper
2019
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An Introduction to Psilocybin

With the advent of the psychedelic renaissance occurring currently, many people have become curious about one of the most famous hallucinogens: psilocybin mushrooms. Read on to discover the most important information about these fascinating fungi.

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2022
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The Movement to Decriminalize Psilocybin, Explained

The latest frontier in state and local drug reform has been the loosening of legal restrictions on psilocybin—the psychoactive compound in “magic mushrooms.”

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Dustin Marlan
2021
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It’s Time to Start Studying the Downside of Psychedelics

Before psychedelic therapy and services becomes widely available, there needs to be a better understanding of all the ways these experiences can go wrong.

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Shayla Love
2022
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FDA Calls Psychedelic Psilocybin a 'Breakthrough Therapy' for Severe Depression

The FDA is helping to speed up the process of researching and approving psilocybin, a hallucinogenic substance in magic mushrooms, to treat major depressive disorder (MDD).

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Yasemin Saplakoglu
2019
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