Australia allows the use of ecstasy and “magic mushrooms” psilocybin in the treatment of mental health problems

Australia allows the use of ecstasy and magic mushrooms psilocybin

MDMA and psilocybin are not legal for medicinal use in Finland, but Canada, for example, approved their use in supervised therapy last year.

Tomi Pyy,

Eelis Bjurström

Australia allows MDMA and psilocybin to be prescribed for post-traumatic stress disorder and depression, reports a British newspaper, among others The Guardian (you are switching to another service).

From July, authorized psychiatrists can prescribe MDMA for traumatic stress disorder and psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression.

A lecturer in emergency medicine at the Australian National University, Dr by David Caldicott it has become “absolutely clear” that controlled dosing of MDMA and psilocybin can have significant effects on diseases often considered resistant to modern treatment.

3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, is commonly known as ecstasy. Psilocybin, on the other hand, is a psychedelic commonly found in so-called magic mushrooms.

MDMA and psilocybin are not legal for medicinal use in Finland, but Canada, for example, approved their use in supervised therapy last year.

Last November, the Canadian company Clairvoyant announced that it would start human trials of psilocybin in Finland with the approval of Fimea, the safety and development center for the pharmaceutical industry.

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