Starting July 1, 2023, Australia will allow psychiatrists to prescribe certain hallucinogens in medical settings to treat PTSD and treatment-resistant depression.
Starting July 1, Australia will allow the legal use of MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, and psilocybin, the hallucinogenic ingredient in"magic mushrooms," to treat post-traumatic stress disorder and treatment-resistant depression, respectively.
A growing number of studies and clinical trials suggest that psilocybin may help patients with treatment-resistant depression, potentially by boosting connectivity between different areas of the brain.
Currently, the U.S. authorizes psilocybin and MDMA treatment in certain cases under compassionate use, a law that allows some individual patients to access drugs that are currently being tested in clinical trials but are not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
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