Scientific American Mind Dec 2007 reports on Psychedelic Healing? Hallucinogenic drugs, which blew minds in the 1960s, soon may be used to treat mental ailments by David Jay Brown. Their helpful summary reads:
Brown writes, "Though still in their preliminary stages, studies in humans suggest that the day when people can schedule a psychedelic session with their therapist to overcome a serious psychiatric problem may not be that far off."
- The drugs that put the "psychedelic" into the sixties are now the subject of renewed research interest because of their therapeutic potential.
- Psychedelics such as LSD and the compound in magic mushrooms could ease a variety of difficult-to-treat mental illnesses, such as chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, and drug or alcohol dependency.
- Clinical trials with various substances are now under way in humans.
What will we tell the children?
(Note to culture-war trolls: Nothing in this post encourages or condones recreational usage of controlled substances. And only a moron would think so.)
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