Australia may be the first country to regulate the therapeutic use of MDMA and psilocybin, but it isn’t alone in ushering in a new era of psychedelic medicine.
In October 2022, Alberta became the first jurisdiction in Canada to regulate the use of psychedelic drugs.
Combining psychotherapy with psychedelic drugs is thought to be necessary for a beneficial outcome.
He said that psychedelic drugs resulted in “powerful altered states of consciousness that can be intensely therapeutic, but also intensely destabilizing.
“If you have a regulated, insured, safe context, and a good psychotherapeutic relationship, and yes, there’s the potential for great benefit there.”However, Rucker stressed that psychedelic drugs were not “a chemical switch to make everything seem fine.
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