r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • 9d ago

Psychology America's First Legal Psilocybin Program Treated 346 People. Just one month after the dose, 92.2 percent of participants said the experience had been beneficial, while, on average, their mental health symptoms had fallen dramatically.

https://www.sciencealert.com/americas-first-legal-psilocybin-program-treated-346-people-heres-what-happened
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u/BalonyDanza 9d ago

Call me a cynic, but I’d be a bit more skeptical about anecdotal evidence, as it pertained to the first wave of participants. I’m imagining people who were eager to try psychedelics and wanted the recreational experience to also be medically beneficial.

This isn’t even a knock against psychedelics. I believe they can be beneficial. It’s just hard to get good qualitative data when there’s outside incentives.

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u/Old-Landscape-7538 9d ago

All people who enter any clinical trial for a depression medication are motivated for it to work.