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The Trip Treatment
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The Trip Treatment

Research into psychedelics, shut down for decades, is now yielding exciting results.


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Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Controversial
  • Scientific
  • Engaging

Recommendation

Journalist Michael Pollan explains the fascinating history of medical research into psychedelics and captures the sense of wonder among researchers and patients experimenting with them today. It’s hard not to be amazed by Pollan’s accounts of mystical, life-changing experiences – especially among patients facing death. The findings from patients’ brain scans also make intriguing reading. getAbstract recommends this article to anyone who wants to know exactly how the brain creates mystical experiences, either drug-induced or otherwise.

Take-Aways

  • The US government funded research into the use of psychedelics on a range of illnesses in the 1950s and ’60s, until it banned the drugs in 1970.
  • A new wave of medical research into psychedelics arose in 2006 at Johns Hopkins University and New York University.
  • Research into treating cancer patients suffering from anxiety with psychedelics is showing immensely positive results.

About the Author

Michael Pollan teaches journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.


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