How psychedelics like psilocybin could be used to treat mental health conditions ranging from alcoholism to cancer-related distress and depression
and how long that took to become accepted. Do you think a similar amount of cultural or societal change needs to happen in terms of educating people about psychedelics like psilocybin?: I think it's going to be vital to educate the public. Otherwise, history will repeat itself. When psychedelics escaped from the lab and started to be used by the general public, people realized that these drugs were dangerous. Because of that, they were demonized and thoroughly repressed.
And now you get into dangerous territory. I think if we're not careful, we can have a cultural backlash again. I think what we need to do is be very cautious. Continue to do the research, to do good research to see what the data shows and how good or not the effects are, and then educate the public that, yeah, these are new treatments, but they have risks associated with them and they should only be used in these kinds of ways..
With psilocybin, it’s a six-hour experience. It comes on gradually, it peaks for about two or three hours, and it comes down gradually. Following the dosing session with the psilocybin, there's a lot of integrative psychotherapy. I really think that the arc is at the heart of the therapeutic experience.
Months, sometimes years, later we ask them to reflect on the experience, and they're often able to say, precisely, ‘I had this experience. I remember this thing happening and that's stuck with me to this day. It had a profound effect on me at the time and it still has a profound effect on me. I can remember very clearly when I had that confrontation with cancer’ or ‘When I experienced my death’ or ‘When I came to another insight.’ And that's why these are so memorable.
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