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433. How Are Psychedelics and Other Party Drugs Changing Psychiatry?

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Psychodelics - Are They Safe?

The side effects that have been noted in party use of m d m ay have to do with dehydration or hypothermia. When you regulate and make things available through a legal channel and provide science and information, then you're giving people tools. So i think that, you know, in some cases, regulation is good, other cases, maybe not. But it is an emergency. And part of the reason that current treatments just don't work as well. You get a little bit of symptom reduction, but the gains may not last forever. It's hard to abuse psychodelic Is hard to take them every day....

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