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Psychedelic therapy: Will it be a game changer for mental health treatment? with Albert Garcia-Romeu, PhD

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Is Psilocybin the Next Drug to Get FDA Approval?

The outlook for these drugs being approved as medications in the US is unclear. MDMA seems close, but what about psilocybin? What about some of the others that you mentioned DMT that comes from Iowa, stuff, things like that? Well, psilocy bin is probably the next closest to approval, I would say, because there's been such a preponderance of research looking at it for depression and then also for other conditions,. Like substance use and existential distress.

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