'I believe these compounds could help millions of people around the world,' said Beckley Psytech Chief Executive Cosmo Fielding Mellen.
The research is promising, but scientists are interested in studying other psychoactive compounds that result in a much shorter high. For psilocybin, the high can last up to eight hours whereas the compound found in toad venom only lasts up to an hour. This would reduce the cost of treatment since guided psilocybin trips require a therapist to stay with the patient until the high ends, which could take up to eight hours.
Fielding Mellen also said that 5-MeO-DMT is attractive as a new treatment option because it produces far fewer visual and auditory hallucinations than LSD or psilocybin treatments. He said the strong hallucinations tend to distract from the therapy sessions and take away from the overall treatment. When the toad venom is ingested, the psychedelic effects only take about 30 seconds to kick in and then leaves the person physically incapacitated for about 30 to 90 minutes, according to Johns Hopkins psychedelics researcher Alan Davis.
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