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Safer Psychedelic Drugs May Be Coming
Companies are working to make psychedelic drugs safer, better, and easier to administer.
Some research suggests psilocybin, a psychoactive compound in magic mushrooms, eases depression by rewiring the brain, altering its landscape to disrupt toxic thought patterns. And Beckley Psytech is developing a synthetic form of a drug similar to DMT, a compound in ayahuasca that results in short-lived but intense hallucinations and can lead to cardiovascular side effects, seizures, and other risks. In addition to its potential one-and-done dosing system, Mellen, Beckley Psytech's CEO, says the compound has a major upside compared to traditional psychedelics: patients start to feel its effects in minutes and come down after about an hour.
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