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A pilot trial with 12 US veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) showed that psilocybin — the active ingredient in magic mushrooms — eased the symptoms for 75% of the participants after one month. Their remaining symptoms no longer met the criteria to be classified as PTSD. 

Trauma has long been thought of as an individual occurrence, with various degrees of adverse experiences sadly impinging on many separate people in recent times. But more individuals have been diagnosed with PTSD, with some estimates up to 6,000 a day in the U.S. The National Center for PTSD says that about 5 out of…

The Departments of Veterans Affairs and Health and Human Services signed an agreement Monday to increase coordination on research into psychedelic drugs for treating veterans’ mental health disorders