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Hallucinogenic drugs could soon work like a ‘surgical intervention’ for mental illness
Kevin Loria Science Dec. 1, 2016, 10:17 PM
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Dinah Bazer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 2010.
The Brooklyn resident, an ice-skating teacher and former bank IT programmer in her 60s, was devastated. Luckily, doctors were able to successfully treat her disease with chemotherapy, but the dread of a re-occurrence just wouldn’t go away. It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
“I was totally consumed with fear and anxiety,” she said on a recent call with a group of reporters.
So in 2011, Bazer enrolled in a trial at New York University where a group of researchers were looking to test a substance that they hoped would have a seemingly “mystical” ability to lift depression and anxiety connected to fear about life’s end.
The drug they were testing wasn’t one dreamed up in a lab. It’s the essential component of psychoactive magic mushrooms, psilocybin.
Hallucinogenic drugs could soon work like a ‘surgical intervention’ for mental illness
Kevin Loria Science Dec. 1, 2016, 10:17 PM
desert silhouette
OceanFishing/Getty Images
Dinah Bazer was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in the spring of 2010.
The Brooklyn resident, an ice-skating teacher and former bank IT programmer in her 60s, was devastated. Luckily, doctors were able to successfully treat her disease with chemotherapy, but the dread of a re-occurrence just wouldn’t go away. It was like waiting for the other shoe to drop.
“I was totally consumed with fear and anxiety,” she said on a recent call with a group of reporters.
So in 2011, Bazer enrolled in a trial at New York University where a group of researchers were looking to test a substance that they hoped would have a seemingly “mystical” ability to lift depression and anxiety connected to fear about life’s end.
The drug they were testing wasn’t one dreamed up in a lab. It’s the essential component of psychoactive magic mushrooms, psilocybin.
