Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Therapy by FDA

Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by realbarack on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:04AM (#21638823)

Consider expanding your definition of what a "therapist" could be and what a "clinical setting" could look like. Michael Pollan's interactions with the therapists (they're called "guides") in "How to Change Your Mind" are not clinical at all in the sense of sterility, beige-walled offices etc.

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Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by stemsux on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:07AM (#21638854)

So some goofy guy whose parents paid for an online masters degree in trip therapy gets to bill my insurance $200 an hour? Meh, I'll take my chances on the black market.

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Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by realbarack on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:18AM (#21638968)

Pollan actually does go on the black market (still probably $200/hour though). You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now.

The point is that the exact people who are well-known and respected as black-market guides would become therapists in a world where such a profession were legal!

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Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by jrochkind1 on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @10:31AM (#21639105)

> You can't legally get a psychedelic trip guide in the US right now.

Not entirely true, although only a few, there have been and continue to be legal studies involving psilocybin (also MDMA) in addition to the one in the OP.

Here is a smoking cessation study in Baltimore, involving a psilocybin psychedelic trip. https://www.quitsmokingbaltimore.org/

Here's an article about the findings of the 2014 pilot study on the same thing which describes the methodology to some extent. https://hub.jhu.edu/2014/09/11/magic-mushrooms-smoking/

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Re:Psilocybin for major depression granted Breakthrough Ther... by pugworthy on Tuesday November 26, 2019 @01:29PM (#21641140)

Seriously, read the book. You're grossly misjudging what the book discusses.

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