Lilith Green

The Need for Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy in the Black Community and the Burdens of Its Provision

Frontiers in Psychiatry January 20, 2022 Darron T. Smith, Sonya C. Faber, NiCole T. Buchanan et al. 69 citations

Psychedelic medicine is an emerging field that examines entheogens, psychoactive substances that produce non-ordinary states of consciousness (NOSC). 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is currently in phase-3 FDA clinical trials in the United States (US) and Canada to treat the symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MDMA is used in conjunction with manualized therapy, because...