Ancient Roots of Today's Emerging Renaissance in Psychedelic Medicine.
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry December 1, 2022 Daniel R George, Ryan Hanson, Darryl Wilkinson et al. 65 citations
An international ban on psychedelics initiated by the United Nations' Convention on Psychotropic Substances in 1971 restricted the clinical use of these ancient psychoactive substances. Yet, in an era marked by rising mental health concerns and a growing "Deaths of Despair" epidemic (i.e., excess mortality and morbidity from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism), the structured psychedelic...