Can psychedelics combat prolonged grief? Dell Medical School is launching a study to find out.
For this, researchers recruit Gold Star Wives, those whose spouses died while serving in the military. Thirty participants will be studied: 15 will receive psilocybin which comes from specific mushrooms; five will take 5-MeO-DMT, a psychedelic derived from toad venom; and the other 10 will receive nothing. The Mission Within will administer the psychedelics outside …