Seattle’s UW Medicine to study effects of psilocybin on stressed-out healthcare workers
A growing body of research shows the drug allows parts of the brain that typically don’t talk to each other to do just that — creating new pathways for thinking, learning and behaving.
Unlike ketamine, however, psilocybin has been deemed dangerous by the FDA with “no medical use.” “That really stems back to the Nixon administration and his dislike for hippies,” UW Medicine’s Dr. Tony Back said. “Historians think that’s why it was categorized as a schedule one drug. It’s really quite safe when taken properly.”
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Seattle’s UW Medicine to study effects of psilocybin on stressed-out healthcare workers
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