Since launching last year, Fireside Project has supported more than 1,700 people on its Psychedelic Peer Support Line, and now the organization is promoting more inclusion and diversity.
Ketamine coupled with psychotherapy shows promise as a treatment option for alcohol use disorder in a Phase 2 clinical trial, adding momentum to the use of psychedelics for treat ing substance abuse.
The Johns Hopkins study is the longest follow-up to date and indicates that therapy protocols and other factors are important to positive treatment outcomes.
The risks psychedelics may hold for older generations are still unknown, but the rewards could include treating pain, processing grief and trauma, and helping women in menopause.