Research led by the New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, has looked into non-medical lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) use by people with major depression status and their ...

LSD-assisted psychotherapy was shown to reduce the anxiety of terminal cancer patients, the drinking of alcoholics, and the symptoms of many difficult-to-treat psychiatric illnesses. For example ...

But these drugs — LSD, mushrooms, and ecstasy, to name a few — are categorized by the federal government as schedule 1 substances, with high risk of abuse and no medical value.

A study from the New York State Psychiatric Institute reveals a 450% increase in non-medical LSD use among US adults with major depression, emphasizing the need for informed, safe use.

Mind Medicine, which is based in New York City, will launch the first-ever clinical trial on LSD and MDMA in January 2021 to determine if the drug combination is safe for human use. Dr. Matthias ...

Do LSD, MDMA and mushrooms have legitimate promise in medical science? Many researchers now suggest that long-banned psychedelics may have a valuable role to play in human psychology ...

1) The idea of using psychedelics for medicine isn't new. The idea of using psychedelic drugs as medicine is not new at all. In 1943, Albert Hofmann serendipitously discovered the effects of LSD ...

Although LSD is considered a Schedule 1 drug (substances with no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse) by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, microdosing has been ...

Psychedelics like ketamine and LSD straddle a fine line—offering therapeutic promise under medical supervision, yet posing serious health risks when trafficked through darknet syndicates for personal ...

A single oral administration of an LSD-based medicine provided rapid and durable improvement in moderate to severe generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) in a phase 2B study.

Hence, MindMed is patenting medical LSD usage techniques but not the drug itself. This will likely mean that, if MindMed develops a product, ...

Psychedelics are generally not addictive, but lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) can cause tolerance. This might result in a person taking increasingly high dosages. Medical News Today ...