Will psychedelic drugs transform mental health treatment?
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The Potential of Psychedelics
There's a lot of excitement around psychedelics at the moment, isn't that mean? I guess not least because existing drugs for these kinds of conditions don't seem to work very well in many patients and we haven't really had any new drugs for a long while. And seeing these drugs work with some people, they can have very transformative effects, but most of them are still at a relatively early stage. We need longer trials and bigger trials, really, to look at that. The idea that people are having a miracle cure can be quite damaging for patients.
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