Psychedelics not linked to mental health problems or suicidal behavior: A population study

PØ Johansen, TS Krebs - Journal of psychopharmacology, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
A recent large population study of 130,000 adults in the United States failed to find evidence
for a link between psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide, psilocybin or mescaline) and …

Psychedelics and mental health: a population study

TS Krebs, PØ Johansen - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Background The classical serotonergic psychedelics LSD, psilocybin, mescaline are not
known to cause brain damage and are regarded as non-addictive. Clinical studies do not …

Classic psychedelic use is associated with reduced psychological distress and suicidality in the United States adult population

PS Hendricks, CB Thorne, CB Clark… - Journal of …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Mental health problems are endemic across the globe, and suicide, a strong corollary of
poor mental health, is a leading cause of death. Classic psychedelic use may occasion …

Psychedelic drug use in healthy individuals: A review of benefits, costs, and implications for drug policy

JWB Elsey - Drug Science, Policy and Law, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The potential of psychedelic drugs in the treatment of mental health problems is increasingly
being recognized. However, relatively little thrust has been given to the suggestion that …

[HTML][HTML] Over 30 million psychedelic users in the United States

TS Krebs, PØ Johansen - F1000Research, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We estimated lifetime prevalence of psychedelic use (lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD),
psilocybin (magic mushrooms), mescaline, and peyote) by age category using data from a …

The relationships of classic psychedelic use with criminal behavior in the United States adult population

PS Hendricks, MS Crawford… - Journal of …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Criminal behavior exacts a large toll on society and is resistant to intervention. Some
evidence suggests classic psychedelics may inhibit criminal behavior, but the extent of these …

Assessing the risk–benefit profile of classical psychedelics: A clinical review of second-wave psychedelic research

D Bender, DJ Hellerstein - Psychopharmacology, 2022 - Springer
Rationale A broad reassessment of the potential benefits of psychedelic drugs has led to the
initiation of multiple major clinical trials in an effort to advance their status to become FDA …

The current status of psychedelics in psychiatry

D Nutt, R Carhart-Harris - JAMA psychiatry, 2021 - jamanetwork.com
In the 1950s, the Swiss pharmaceutical company Sandoz, which employed the chemist
Albert Hofmann, who discovered lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and the similar …

Attitudes and beliefs about the therapeutic use of psychedelic drugs among psychologists in the United States

AK Davis, G Agin-Liebes, M España… - … of psychoactive drugs, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Psychologists are a vital component of mental health treatment and their perceptions of
psychedelic-assisted therapy are critical for future implementation. This cross-sectional …

Race and ethnicity moderate the associations between lifetime psychedelic use (MDMA and psilocybin) and psychological distress and suicidality

GM Jones, MK Nock - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Psychedelic compounds have been linked to salutary mental health outcomes in both
naturalistic and clinical settings; however, current research on psychedelics suffers from a …