Toronto institution just got federal money to treat people with magic mushrooms Toronto
, as controlled drugs that were once considered dangerous and of no use to medicine enter the mainstream of mental health treatment.
In a manner of speaking, Justin Trudeau just paid for a whole lot of people to trip on mushrooms. But for science! CAMH will recruit 60 adults with treatment-resistant depression over three years, with groups to receive either a full dose of psilocybin plus a serotonin blocker inhibiting the drug's psychedelic effect, a dose of psilocybin plus a placebo blocker, and a placebo psilocybin dose with a real blocker.
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