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Is There a Hype About Psychedelics?
There is a lot of hype about the potential for psychedelics to treat all kinds of things from obesity to OCD. Dr. Joshua Gordon, director of the National Institute of Mental Health says these drugs are probably going to represent an important but incremental improvement rather than a revolutionary change. We had a lot of hope that it'd be really transformative in the beginning. Now it's looking like they may be very, very useful and important, but not in the same way transformative that we had hoped.