Psychologist William Richards has studied psychedelics since the '60s. He says Johns Hopkins University's new center for psychedelic research may usher in “a whole new era” of treatment for mental illnesses. (hereandnow)
Johns Hopkins University has launched awith $17 million in donations solely from private donors, the first of its kind in the U.S.
Richards began his journey with psychedelics in the early ‘60s, in the midst of a wave of psychedelic research, when he was a graduate student in Germany and volunteered for a psilocybin trial. Psilocybin mushrooms are typically known as “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms” for short. “I would say that arose out of the cultural change in fears back in the 1960s,” Richards says. “It's distorted. It’s inaccurate.”
That supportive environment allows patients to “feel free to just kind of sink into their minds, embrace whatever emerges — whether it’s pleasant or unpleasant initially — and trust the healing processes of their own minds,” he says. He says some patients on psychedelic substances might find themselves working through grief, guilt or confusion.He hopes furthering research at Johns Hopkins University will lead to legal, insurance-covered psilocybin therapy, specifically in palliative care, which would assist those nearing death in coping with anxiety and depression.
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