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The Bad Trip Detective
The researcher delving into the downsides of psychedelic drugs.
The psychedelic renaissance is upon us.In 2021,the National Institutes of Health’s annual “ Monitoring the Future ” study observed that hallucinogen use had hit an all-time high since the first survey was completed in 1988, with reported use by United States adults aged 19-30 up to 8 percent. As Evans, now a researcher at the University of London in the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, began looking into the literature, he learned that the most serious effects may also be vastly underreported in trials involving psychedelics. Some 608 individuals from around the world responded over the next few months, answering questions about context of use, the nature and duration of the challenges they experienced, plus a range of possible risk factors and perceived causes, and providing written accounts of their experiences.
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