MAPS Benefits of Psychedelic Psychotherapy

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Benefits of Psychedelic Psychotherapy
excerpt from "Psilocybin with psychological support for treatment-resistant depression: an open-label feasibility study"

The Lancet Medical Journal said:
80% of long-term heavy tobacco smokers demonstrated abstinence from smoking 6 months after two treatment sessions with psilocybin. Alcohol-dependent patients demonstrated significantly reduced drinking behaviours over 8 months after one or two psilocybin sessions. Significantly decreased anxiety and depression scores were observed 3 and 6 months after a single dose of psilocybin in patients with anxiety related to end-stage cancer, and improvements in wellbeing lasting for more than 1 year were observed in healthy individuals given a single dose of psilocybin. Rapid and enduring decreases in depressive symptoms were also recently found in a small-scale feasibility trial involving the psychedelic brew, ayahuasca.

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