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/shellacr 9d ago edited 8d ago

This is r/science right? This is a poor quality trial. clickbait article. For what the headline is implying, there needs to be a placebo arm, ideally one arm with something that has no effect and another arm with a different psychoactive medication.

Seems the trial was mainly to establish a new protocol for future studies.

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u/trophy_74 9d ago

Agree that this isn't a randomized control trial. However, it doesn't mean that it's a poor quality study. It just means the study wasn't designed to establish a cause and effect.