Psychedelic therapy: Will it be a game changer for mental health treatment? with Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD
Speaking of Psychology
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Do Psychedelics Work for Substance Use Disorders?
A lot of current treatments are focused on masking things like withdrawal or craving. When you start to go down into the deeper roots of why it is that they're doing those types of behaviors, then you're able to really make long term lasting changes. That's still really a big, a mystery,. We've seen a lot more research over the last decade or so, looking at psychedelics and MDMA to understand their brain mechanisms. But we're really still impacting those and trying to differentiate what the different types of drugs are doing"
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