At a handful of sites across the country, after a four-decade hiatus, psychedelic research is undergoing a quiet renaissance, thanks to scientists like Charles Grob who are revisiting the powerful mind-altering drugs of the 1960s in hopes of making them part of our therapeutic arsenal. Hallucinogens such as psilocybin, MDMA (better known as Ecstasy), and the most controversial of them all, LSD, are being tested as treatments for maladies that modern medicine has done little to assuage, such as post-traumatic stress disorder, drug dependency, obsessive-compulsive disorder, cluster headaches, and the emotional suffering of people with a terminal illness.
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5 comments:
ahh, acid..my favorite drug of choice..
I'm glad they're studying them now instead of just making them all illegal.
Me too. Ecstasy was a psycho-therapeutic drug at first. Breakthroughs that would normally take years could be made in hours on ecstasy. I think it lets you put your guard down a little.
Tune in, turn on, drop out...the hippies were right!
Are they looking for test subjects? :-)
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