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Richard C. Dart

7 papers in the library · 33 citations · publishing 2024-2026

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Psychedelic Terminology Preference in the 2024 National Survey Investigating Hallucinogenic Trends (NSIHT).

Journal of Psychoactive Drugs March 16, 2026 Faith E Lyons, Karilynn M Rockhill, Evelyn J Fox et al.

Expanding regulation and increased use of psychedelic substances requires surveillance of behaviors and health outcomes in the United States. Widely comprehendible terminology is important for surveys. The objective of this study was to determine what psychedelic terminology is preferred among adults who used a psychedelic in the past 12 months. A cross-sectional survey measuring psychedelic...

Psychedelic Trips: Travel Within the United States to Use Psychedelic Drugs After Legalization.

Annals of emergency medicine June 30, 2025 Joshua C. Black, Karilynn M Rockhill, Evelyn J Fox et al. 4 citations

Oregon and Colorado have legalized possession of natural psychedelic drugs. We assessed if travel to use psychedelics in decriminalized states is occurring and compared the use patterns of travelers with nontravelers. The National Survey Investigating Hallucinogen Trends is a cross-sectional behavioral survey fielded from April to June 2024 to every US state. The survey asks whether individuals...

Comparing Substance Use Consequences between Serotonergic Psychedelics, MDMA, and other Drugs of Abuse Among United States Adults with History of Psychiatric Illness

International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction April 1, 2025 Joshua C. Black, Nicole Schow, Hannah L. Burkett et al. 3 citations

Psychedelic-assisted therapy could transform treating psychiatric illness, but harms from exacerbating substance use disorder (SUD) among adults with psychiatric illness using psychedelics have not been studied. A cross-sectional survey in the US was used to test whether Drug Abuse Screening Test scores (DAST-10, validated instrument predicting SUD) were more severe when psychiatric illnesses...

Clinical Effects of Psychedelic Substances Reported to United States Poison Centers: 2012 to 2022.

Annals of emergency medicine December 1, 2024 Mark W Simon, Heather A Olsen, Christopher O Hoyte et al. 12 citations

Psychedelic substances use is increasing in the United States (US). The approval of new psychedelic drugs and legalization of natural psychedelic substances will likely further increase exposures and subsequent adverse events. The study objective is to describe the clinical effects, therapies, and medical outcomes of patients with psychedelic exposures reported to US poison centers. We...

Can mind-altering prescription medicines be safe? Lessons from ketamine and esketamine.

Clinical toxicology (Philadelphia, Pa.) August 1, 2024 Richard C. Dart 9 citations

Recent decades have witnessed an extraordinary global crisis of drug misuse. Although opioid analgesics receive the most attention, numerous other drugs have increased rates of misuse. Ketamine and esketamine offer a unique natural experiment to explore two medications that are similar pharmacologically but differ in their availability to users and in their regulation by government agencies....

Optimizing real-world benefit and risk of new psychedelic medications: the need for innovative postmarket surveillance

Nature Mental Health May 1, 2024 Joshua C. Black, Andrew A. Monte, Nabarun Dasgupta et al. 5 citations

The encouraging results of late-phase clinical trials investigating psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy suggests that US Food and Drug Administration approval and subsequent expansion of use is imminent in the USA. Without fit-for-purpose postmarket surveillance to proactively monitor utilization by patients and providers, there is a risk that the real-world benefits of psychedelic-assisted...