Thousands of Americans Treated With Psilocybin in 2025 (cnn.com)
- Reference: 0181161326
- News link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/26/03/28/1722235/thousands-of-americans-treated-with-psilocybin-in-2025
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/28/travel/psilocybin-retreats-united-states-wellness
> High doses of psilocybin are effective in treating depression, a growing body of research suggests, with promise for other conditions, like PTSD and addiction, said Dr. Albert Garcia-Romeu, associate director of the Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research at Johns Hopkins University... Some researchers suggest it disrupts entrenched traffic patterns in the brain or grows new neuron connections to change thinking. Others say the results from psilocybin could have to do with its anti-inflammatory effect, Garcia-Romeu said...
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> Colorado became the second state to make psilocybin legal with a 2023 law and issued its first [3]healing center" last year. A law adopted in New Mexico last year established that state's [4]Medical Psilocybin Program , now in development... Psilocybin seems to be "knocking on the door of FDA approval," said Dr. Lynn Marie Morski, president of the Psychedelic Medicine Association, which educates health care providers on the therapeutic use of psychedelics so they can answer patients' questions through the lenses of clinical evidence and harm reduction. Psilocybin therapy first [5]received a "breakthrough therapy" designation for treatment-resistant depression from the US Food and Drug Administration in 2018, and now [6]psilocybin drug products are on track to be submitted to the FDA for possible approval in the not-too-distant future.
While psilocybin is illegal under United States federal law, more states are creating their own paths for legal use under state laws.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/28/travel/psilocybin-retreats-united-states-wellness
[2] https://www.dea.gov/factsheets/psilocybin
[3] https://dnm.colorado.gov/natural-medicine-frequently-asked-questions
[4] https://www.nmhealth.org/about/mcpp/mpp/
[5] https://science.slashdot.org/story/19/11/26/223206/psilocybin-for-major-depression-granted-breakthrough-therapy-by-fda
[6] https://ir.compasspathways.com/News--Events-/news/news-details/2026/Compass-Pathways-Announces-Fourth-Quarter-and-Full-Year-2025-Financial-Results-and-Business-Highlights/default.aspx
The Underlying Question: Why depressed? (Score:2)
The Underlying issue is: Why are some people depressed?
If we understand that, it is very likely that no drug will be necessary. People won't become depressed.
BOOK: The Mindful Way through Depression (Score:2)
BOOK:
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
[1]https://www.amazon.com/Mindful... [amazon.com]
No drug necessary.
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Way-through-Depression-Unhappiness-dp-1462553923/dp/1462553923/ref=dp_ob_title_bk
Re: (Score:2)
We would have to re-arrange society to ease many of the stressors in life. I predict we'll be needing those drugs for a while.
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> If we understand that, it is very likely that no drug will be necessary
i agree that understanding what's wrong with our lifestyle and society should be the priority, but psilocybin actually helps with that at the individual, personal level. that's exactly how/why it works. think of it as a sort of enlighment or rediscovery of self, not a drug side efect. improvements are long lasting and continued use is not needed nor recommended.
You can't legalize drugs (Score:4, Interesting)
Criminalizing drugs completely changes us politics. We learned a long time ago that the reason drugs were criminalized was so that the right wing could go after the left wing because statistically working class people are more likely to take drugs. Nixon's people came out and just admitted it because they felt guilty. The entire purpose of the drug war was and always is political.
Because of that you are never going to see things like this used properly and legalized which is a shame because psychedelics have been shown repeatedly to be a game changer for people with post traumatic stress disorder. And there are a lot of people with PTSD beyond soldiers.
The catch is that for it to work you need to do it under Dr supervision generally. You need someone there who can carefully guide you through the process. Just dropping a tab of acid isn't usually going to work. So by criminalizing it an entire group of people whose lives could be transformed or just left out in the cold. But compared to the billions and billions of dollars that can be made using the drug war to win elections that's a small price to pay.
And of course because we have been conditioned to view talk about politics as dirty anytime you bring this up you're guaranteed to piss everybody off. It is no coincidence that you are conditioned not to talk about your salary with your coworkers or your political beliefs.
Fun fact the reason rural towns tend to be right wing is because there is usually one extremely wealthy landowner who runs the show and if you deviate slightly from orthodoxy then he's the only employer in town and he runs the church and everything else and you're basically persona non grata.
I bring it up because it's another way that the discussion and debate in our country is locked down to the benefit of people who do not have your best interests at heart
It's Oregon (Score:2)
Where will they find a control group?
Just ignorant? (Score:3)
> It's Oregon, where will they find a control group?
You do realize they have Mennonites in Oregon right? If not then you should really educate yourself about the nation you live within because it's quite diverse. If you think diversity is a bad thing then perhaps you're in the wrong nation.
It works (Score:3)
I am a medical marijuana patient adn when I travelled this winter I went adn got some gummies at a smoke shop. They were processed in the same facility that produces psilocybin gummies and there was cross contamination. Snapped me out of my depression instantly. Lasted about 2 weeks until I was subjected to another traumatic event.
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Only losers use drugs
-- Nancy Reagan
Re: (Score:3, Insightful)
What she meant is that only losers buy drugs on the street, real people have them delivered in less class-denying packages.