STUDY FINDS NO LINK BETWEEN HALLUCINOGENS AND MENTAL PROBLEMS | NPR

STUDY FINDS NO LINK BETWEEN HALLUCINOGENS AND MENTAL PROBLEMS | NPR

by Scott Hensley

How risky are psychedelic drugs to mental health? Not nearly as much as you might have imagined.

People who had taken LSD, psilocybin (the brain-bending chemical in magic mushrooms) or mescaline at any time in their lives were no more likely than those who hadn’t to wind up in mental health treatment or to have symptoms of mental illness, according to an analysis by some Norwegian researchers.

And there was some evidence that people who had taken the drugs at some point were less likely to have had recent mental health treatment.

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