One woman said her psilocybin-induced hallucinations — flying over breathtaking landscapes and merging telepathically with creative people throughout history taught her she wasn’t alone.
, published Wednesday in JAMA Psychiatry, is “the first modern, rigorous, controlled trial” of whether it can also help people struggling with alcohol, said Fred Barrett, a Johns Hopkins University neuroscientist who wasn’t involved in the study.
Only three conventional drugs — disulfiram, naltrexone and acamprosate — are approved to treat alcohol use disorder and there’s been no new drug approvals in nearly 20 years. Less is known about how enduring those new connections might be. In theory, combined with talk therapy, people might be able to break bad habits and adopt new attitudes more easily.
“The quantity was unacceptable and yet I couldn’t stop,” she said. “There was no off switch that I could access.” “It made alcohol irrelevant and uninteresting to me,” Orr said. Now, “I am tethered to my children and my loved ones in a way that just precludes the desire to be alone with alcohol.” Still, most patients in the study correctly guessed whether they got the psilocybin or the dummy pill.
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